Salt Lake City, UT, USA
While on the roof of our 26 floor condominium building we saw what appeared to be a cloud or haze moving across the sky at about the sa
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-14
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 min.
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1997-67a5d7
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from Utah in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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