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Analysis of Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2020
We analyzed all 14 UFO sighting reports in Salt Lake City, Utah to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "light" (4 reports, 28.57% of total).
- March was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 21.43% of total).
- Tuesday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 28.57% of total).
- 08/11/20 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (8 reports, 57.14% of total).
UFO Reports in Salt Lake City, Utah from 2020
These Salt Lake City, Utah UFO reports from 2020 are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Multiple glowing orange lights flying around in the dark evening sky for several minutes.
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Last night I saw an orange star in the sky above downtown slc. Then I noticed it had lightning type spider legs come out,and almost shoot a ray of light at something. After it seemed like beams of light were falling from the object.
It would move short but swiftly. It looked like it was defending itself against an attack of some sort, the lightning rays shooting out of it seemed defensive, as a small blink of light would approach it, then the orange lightning would shoot in it's direction, followed by a beam of light that seemed to travel a good distance through clouds. I have never seen anything like it and I just sat there for about an hour watching this star wars type battle in the sky.
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Bright white dot in Salt Lake Was looking up at sky and saw a very bright light, I thought it was a super bright star at first. It didn’t move for maybe a minute, but then seemed to slowly start moving. After maybe 15 seconds, the light dimmed about 70% and it began flying very fast diagonally up and westward until out of view.
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I came outside onto my back porch to feed my kitty cat at 21:43. Set the food down and looked up. In the southeastern sky at about 30 to 35 degrees up, I saw 3 lights in the shape of a triangle.
The lights were almost as bright as Jupiter (which was to the right) and were stationary. I watched the triangle of lights for 60 to 90 seconds. Then one light faded out over a 3 second amount of time.
Then another. Again slowly faded out over 3 seconds. The 3rd light--same thing.
Gone. Watched the sky for another 15 minutes. Nothing.
Came in the house to make a report. I live 1.5 miles east of the I-80/I-15 interchange in sugar house area.
I'm guessing this triangle of lights was located over the Millcreek or Cottonwood heights area. There had to be others who witnessed this. By the way, there was no sound.
Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone with me.
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moving and silent V-shaped formation of lights in binocular field of view while stargazing At 10:30 on the night of 7/12/2020, I was in my backyard on the east part of the Salt Lake Valley stargazing with my 10 x 50 binoculars. I was looking at about 75 to 80 degrees from north, so almost due east and about 45 degrees up from ground level in the east (well above the mountain skyline). I notice movement across my field of view and quickly moved to find it.
I tracked it to about 130 degrees from north. At that point I lowered my binoculars to see if I could see it with unaided eyes and could not see it. I tried to find it again with the binoculars without success.
I estimate the time viewed in the binoculars was 10 – 15 seconds. I immediately had the feeling that I was seeing something unusual. I had no perspective of how far away it was as I was looking into stars and blackness of night.
It could have been several blocks away or several miles. I also could not discern the size of what I saw. I did not even see a solid shape.
It was just the V formation of lights and moving south. The object fit into approximately 50% of the field of view of the binoculars. Added to the strangeness of the event was that there was no noise.
It was very silent. To me, it was a surreal sight and nothing I have remotely seen before. I am always looking to the night skies and that night gave me a moment I will not forget.
The first impression I had upon seeing it was that it resembled the formation of a flock of geese flying In a V formation. But this was definitely not that. It was a moving formation of lights that did not vary from formation or direction.
Once I realized I saw something unusual, I went inside to tell my wife who was in bed. Due to my reaction, she did not question that I had seen what I saw. I only hope to know of others who may have seen this or something similar.
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Object unusual altitude one light observed. Traveling in a pattern not conducive to commercial or private chat Noir helicopter. I am an empath.
Also a medium. This is approximately in my perhaps 5th or 6th sighting. I was outside on the phone with one of my friends.
I was prompted to look up. There was an object moving at a far greater altitude than normal . not have the lights the lighting or shape of airplane commercial nor privates nor helicopter .
I observed a single light this time. It appeared to be moving from the south 2 North a little eastbound. It made continued steady progress like that of a falling star but not at the Rate or speed of it.
When it was directly overhead its load paused. Then climb Tire and I lost track of it. The other times I've seen them reminded me of when they like a mosquito fly or bee buzzing around the erratic path they take.
The speed. Was much greater of course. I've seen more triangular-shaped with multiple light.
There is an spell singular and multiple spacecraft Are UFOs. I believe in one the lights were blinking or flashing. I didn't look up! until it was close to me.
As I said it appeared to be traveling at a reasonable rates and then almost paused about me. I was just wondering if there was something else in the area that night like a military are saddle I don't know if you can see Satellites with endearing distance. This was higher than anything I've ever seen.
When I witnessed the UFOs before they moved 8n closer. I got the impression there were to possibly more objects in the sky. One was hidden behind another.
There will be another sighting soon. Possibly a visitation boots-on-the-ground Landing. That's what I've seen in my vision anyway.
The same way I saw the theft from the labs in Wuhan. My premonitions happen fairly quickly. So I would State another one that's sure.
Possibly the boots on the ground. Where I live. We have a lot of military installations out here like Hill Air Force Base.
So at first I wondered if it might perhaps be something like that. Except for the altitude didn't make sense.
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I have the craft on video on my cell phone. I saw it as I was walking into my office building at 430 am I have the craft on my phone. The reason I say I don't know a shape is because it grew and shrunk and grew and shrunk and then blew up huge to what my wife and I call "when it went super nova".
My wife saw it from our home about a mile away at the same time. The night before we saw a white orb flying in front of our home. The whole experience was really crazy.
Anyway, I was walking into my work when I looked up and saw what I knew instantly was something not from this world. It was white and got small then big then small repeating. It was white and bright as day although it didn't make the sky bright.
It was fascinating. My wife was awake because she makes me breakfast each morning and sends me on my way. When I saw it, I called her and she went outside and saw the same thing just a mile away.
I recorded it though and have clear video of it where she didn't get it on her phone. I'm not sure what else I can say other than that.
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Backyard UFO on Nest camera This was caught no my nest camera and triggered an alert. It seems to just come through backyard and go over our fence. It is not up in the sky.
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20-30 lights moving in a north northeast direction at extreme speeds. Also saw 2 bright white light flash one time. Like a camera flash.
I know how satellites move. These were not satellites.
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Both myself and my boyfriend were looking over the security camera tape minutes after the light was caught on our surveillance camera. After breaking it down frame by frame we still are stumped. We have a few security cameras.
This one faces south from our bedroom window.
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A large white light with colors coming off the top hovered over downtown sector about an hour, was then joined by another light which had a saucer like shape before both disappeared, blinking out of existence.
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5 large balls of light in a diagonal line, not moving in the sky, disappeared one by one. Around 9pm MST I was lying in bed watching TV when an extremely bright light entered the room through the crack in my curtains. Mind you my lights are off with a bright TV blaring in my face.
This light was bright enough to catch my attention. I went to the window and saw 5 large balls of light in the sky, extremely bright, over the Oquirrh Mountains. They had an orange/red color, at times appearing white in a diagonal line.
Further up in the sky more towards the North I could see Uranus or Venus according to my star locator, I don’t know which one as they are showing side by side on the app and I live in the city so only one is visible. But the planet has been extremely bright the past few nights, these 5 lights were even brighter and slightly larger in size. It’s common for planes to be seen flying North to South and South to North in this area but these lights were coming from the West and were much brighter than any planes I have seen in the sky.
They also weren’t moving or blinking. It started with 5 lights in a diagonal line, then the one to the far right disappeared leaving 4 lights. Then the next one to the far right faded out leaving 3 lights.
These 3 lights stayed for a longer amount of time, again not moving, until all 3 at once faded away.
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Panther shaped object died in distance. Saw a bright light. Sounds weird but it almost looked like a cat/panther.
Slowly died off in the distance.
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Witnessed during predawn clear sky succession of white lights 20 - 25 equally spaced proceeding from NW to SW. Witnessed during predawn clear sky a succession of white lights numbering 20 - 25 equally spaced proceeding from Northwest to Southeast in a straight column line following earth's curvature. Path proceeded over the Rocky Mountain region from a Salt Lake City vantage point.
The path of the convoy proceeded in line with the Polaris star from our view triangulated by Vega and Daneb. No moon. White-lit objects did not blink and there was no sound when observed from our front lawn.
Acknowledged in progress and amazed to see so many proceeding and spaced equally. Two observers with college degrees and early risers who typically observe the morning stars and sky while retrieving the paper to start the day.
Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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March | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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08/11/20 | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
11/30/20 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
12/25/20 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
07/12/20 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
04/17/20 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Salt Lake City, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 8 reported sightings | 57.14% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
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