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Civilian reports · Source: NUFORC

UFO sightings in Utah

There are 57 civilian UFO sighting reports from Utah in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1974 to 2013. The busiest year was 2013, with 7 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (13), sphere (10) and disc (5).

Most reports come from Salt Lake City (6), Cedar City (4) and St. George (3), out of 43 places in the state with at least one report.

By place

UFO sightings by city in Utah

Places with at least three reports. 40 other places in Utah have one or two.

The reports

Recent sighting reports from Utah

All 57 reports, newest first.

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  1. 26 Oct 2013 · 19:00Zion National ParkOrb· 10 min

    Abnormally bright white light stationed in the sky approached by aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus? PD))

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  2. 25 Oct 2013 · 06:17Salt Lake CitySphere· 3 min

    Bright green basketball sized orb dashed next to me, then up to the sky.

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  3. 22 Oct 2013 · 20:55Cedar CityOther· 7 s

    Noiseless, extremely fast pair of lights.

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  4. 22 Oct 2013 · 20:00LoganBoomerang· 10 s

    Chevron shaped dark image highlight by subtle orange glowing lights surrounding exterior in extreme quiet flight.

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  5. 16 Oct 2013 · 22:30South WeberDisc· 3 s

    Bright egg shaped green light fly across the sky in 2-3 seconds.

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  6. 14 Oct 2013 · 20:15Salt Lake ValleyOrb· 20 min

    Stationary light circled by helicopters,

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  7. 13 Oct 2013 · 02:59Salt Lake CityOther· 5 s

    Bright flash in the sky followed by a distant explosion about 3 seconds later. It was not lightning. It was not a stormy night and ther

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  8. 24 Oct 2012 · 07:45West Valley CityAmorphous· 5 min

    Black object hovering and changing shape...suddenly vanished.

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  9. 20 Oct 2012 · 22:20South JordanSphere· 2 min

    Unexplaned huge red/orange ball over Sandy, Ut traveling horizontally and suddenly dropping out of sight.

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  10. 18 Oct 2012 · 21:20Bonneville Salt FlatsOther· 45 min

    Stars chasing other stars near Bonneville/ Salt Lake City

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  11. 15 Oct 2012 · 17:45TooeleCigar· 5 min

    Tooele, object over mouantains disapears.

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  12. 13 Oct 2012 · 02:00Salt Lake CityOther· 2 min

    It was a blue light in the sky, i was driving home after i drop a friend off in rose park, than i realize that there was a blue light

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  13. 2 Oct 2012 · 13:20TaylorsvilleSphere· 10 min

    Silver orb moving over the Salt Lake valley from north to south and then from south to east.

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  14. 16 Oct 2011 · 21:00Cedar CityOther· 20 min

    Bright light over Cedar City Utah nightly around 8pm. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a star, we suspect. PD))

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  15. 15 Oct 2011 · 22:00Salt Lake CityOrb· 10 s

    Orange orb light over Sugarhouse park.

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  16. 14 Oct 2011 · 20:30WendoverAmorphous· 17 min

    Black object in sky over lakeside military area in Utah.

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  17. 12 Oct 2011 · 20:00St. GeorgeDisc· 7 s

    I saw a hovering metallic grey saucer shaped disk hovering over the South Gate Golf course

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  18. 11 Oct 2011 · 15:00Cedar CityOrb· 8 s

    Bright, white, star-like UFO over Cedar City at 1500 on sunny day.

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  19. 19 Oct 2010 · 20:05RiverdaleOrb· 20 s

    Two bright lights appear, one after another

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  20. 16 Oct 2008 · 21:10St. GeorgeOther· 2 min

    Bright balls of light over St. George and near the radio tower

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  21. 15 Oct 2008 · 20:00St. GeorgeOther· 20 min

    Very large bright lights, equal brightness and distance moved at high speed across desert sky. NOT A PLANE.

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  22. 15 Oct 2008 · 16:00Cedar CityOther· 30 s

    Pure white, floating 747 or 737.

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  23. 12 Oct 2007 · 00:20OgdenTriangle· 10 s

    Large Triangle space craft seen from Northern Utah Traveling South out of the North sky 10-12-07 at 12:20am

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  24. 15 Oct 2006 · 00:15MoabOrb· 1 min

    Object entering the atmosphere, 3 red, green and blue lights spinning and slowing down as if landing.

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  25. 23 Oct 2005 · 23:00Park ValleyRectangle· 5 s

    10/23/05; Park Valley, Utah; rectangular; 4-5 seconds, looked like a flying box car; posted 10/28/05.

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  26. 17 Oct 2005 · 15:30KearnsDiamond· 5 s

    ((NUFORC Note: Student report. We cannot certify that it is a serious report. PD)) Two diamond shaped ufo's, and a red dot.

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  27. 17 Oct 2005 · 15:15KearnsOther· 3 min

    ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD)) Two, colorful, cross shaped objects in the sky.

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  28. 17 Oct 2005 · 13:00West ValleyOther· 10 s

    ((NUFORC Note: Student report. Probable hoax. PD)) It was such a scary sight.

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  29. 11 Oct 2005 · 16:36Lake PointOrb· 12 min

    Lights near Lake Point/Grantsville, UT

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  30. 11 Oct 2005 · 16:00Canyonlands NpFormation· 10 min

    ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellites. PD)) Needles Outpost: I was admiring the stars I saw 3 moving objects, all in a row.

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  31. 23 Oct 2003 · 12:30Salt Lake CityOther· 6 s

    UTAH UFO HUNTERS REPORT: I had a strange feeling the object was following me.

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  32. 22 Oct 2003 · 18:40Skyline DriveDisc· 4 min

    Watched 3 disk shaped objects, stationary, and in a v-formation, for about 4 minutes.

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  33. 17 Oct 2003 · 17:10West JordanOther· 6 s

    IT WAS JUST A SERIES OF LIGHTS THAT WERE REVOLVING IN A SORT OF CIRCULAR PATTERN. THE LIGHTS WERE CLEAR WHITE AND I SAW THEM FOR ABOUT

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  34. 16 Oct 2003 · 13:00HannaOther· 2 s

    UTAH UFO HUNTERS REPORT: Flaming piece of Meteroite falls.

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  35. 13 Oct 2003 · 21:00ProvoOrb· 15 min

    Large Orange light gave us chills

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  36. 16 Oct 2002 · 19:37OgdenFormation· 2 min

    While sitting on my front porch I saw 2 orbs of light going across the night sky; They had no clearence lights of an airplane.

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  37. 14 Oct 2002 · 20:15ElmoSphere· 10 min

    Large very bright circular light spanding much of the countryside. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))

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  38. 14 Oct 2002 · 19:05IvinsOrb· 5 s

    Three fireballs appeared which emitted orange/yellow beams, faded in, then out.

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  39. 14 Oct 2002 · 02:00JosephTriangle· 2 s

    glowing green triangle passed over my truck, while driving on Interstate 70 in a Utah canyon pass at night.

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  40. 1 Oct 2002 · 22:30RivertonOther· 2 min

    Red and blue flashing lights, low to the ground, behind my car on a deserted road in Riverton, Utah.

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  41. 15 Oct 2001 · 10:00LaytonSphere· 1 min

    pefect pace ;straight line;stopped dead in mid air hovered momentarily went straight up in clouds

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  42. 19 Oct 2000 · 07:40Salt Lake CitySphere· 3 min

    Round and metallic about 1/4 to 1/3 third the size of the planes they were were follwoing.

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  43. 25 Oct 1999 · 12:18CorinneDisc· 15 s

    A bright white disk-shaped object flew in veiw.

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  44. 17 Oct 1999 · 04:00MoabOrb· 5 s

    I saw it through the ceiling of my tent. It was brighter than anything in the sky. It was probably a large meteor or fireball as it i

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  45. 19 Oct 1998 · 21:35DeweyvilleSphere· 15 s

    My son and I,were driving home going northbound along HWY39 we noticed a very bright large green sphericial object traveling east to no

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  46. 19 Oct 1998 · 00:34VernalOther· 2 h

    We were Elk hunting when we saw what appeared to be a plane crashing. So we got in our truck and proceeded over the ridge to investigat

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  47. 12 Oct 1998 · 07:00MurrayOrb· 5 min

    It was a red light in the north west sky. it rose very slowly for about three minetes and then droped down flashing red and white.To sl

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  48. 1 Oct 1998 · 00:00LoganTriangle· 2 min

    We saw 5 triangular objects moving at high altitude to the south, circling each other like small birds.

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  49. 21 Oct 1997 · 22:00BluffOrb· 1 min

    following a green fireball, a red light appeared on Comb Ridge.

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  50. 15 Oct 1997 · 03:00Brigham CityOther· 3 min

    VERY LARGE GLOWING OBJECT HOVERED TO THE WEST OF THE SALT LAKE DISAPERING AFTER ABOUT 3 MIN

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  51. 13 Oct 1997 · 05:00Ogden/ClintonSphere· 3 h

    My husband woke me up to see this. It is hard to describe because it was inside a cloud. It had an outer ring of triangular lights that

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  52. 22 Oct 1988 · 23:16Green RiverOther· 11 min

    Top shaped object /light sitting in the night sky right in front of me

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  53. 15 Oct 1984 · 01:00DuchenneDisc· 10 min

    I know they exist it was on ground and it was not from here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  54. 21 Oct 1982 · 23:30OremTriangle· 2 min

    while noticing the stars over my head disappear in the shape of a triangle three lights became visable and a center docking entrance,as

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  55. 15 Oct 1980 · 14:00SandySphere· 1 min

    Unidentified flying objects Investigations

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  56. 21 Oct 1976 · 21:00St. George To Las VegasOrb· 30 min

    A Bright red light in the southwestern sky approx. 45 degrees above the horizon.

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  57. 27 Oct 1974 · 21:00EastlandSphere· 1 h

    At the time this was happening, I told myself that no one will ever convince me that this did not happen, ever!

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About this data

Where these reports come from

Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.