CaseUnknown1952

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

My great-uncle was certain he saw 2 UFOs over the Wasatch Mountains in the early 1950s.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-01-01
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Unknown
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1952-b8b7b4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

In context

  • Salt Lake City, UT shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Utah in 1952.

Report

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