Salt Lake City, UT, USA
A witness recalled a relative's report of two unidentified objects over the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, in the early 1950s.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (140 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
Part of a wave
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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