Salt Lake City, UT
Utah · Salt Lake County · Salt Lake City-Murray Metro
Salt Lake City is a large city in Utah with a population of 203,888. Residents earn $74,925 per year, which is 0% below the national average.
3.3
/5.0
B
Good
203,888
Population
1,839/sq mi density
$74,925
Median Income
$49,642 per capita
$495,700
Home Value
$565,484 Zillow
$1,343
Median Rent
29.5% income on rent
52°F
Avg Temperature
315 sunny days/yr
712
Violent Crime/100K
5,657 property/100K
B
Overall
3.3 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
A
Economy
4.3 / 5.0
$74,925 median income, 2.8% unemployment
C+
Affordability
2.9 / 5.0
$495,700 home value, $1,343/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
712 violent crimes/100K (87% above avg)
A+
Education
5.0 / 5.0
50.9% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
139
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
83
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
6
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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UFO Sightings Near Salt Lake City, UT
139 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Salt Lake City, UT.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Red light not flashing moving slow and hovering then disappeared. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | ((HOAX??)) Abduction and Oval Ufo sighting a few weeks before. The aliens were red headed Lyrans. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Large red bright orb releasing a smaller red orb towards the ground. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Orange hovering lights above salt lake city. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Object seemingly on fire hovering over salt lake airport. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Black diamond with green, red & white light moving slow and low over city Westbound |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | Orange balls in formation over Salt Lake City Valley. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2014 | My wife, my step son and myself were driving on an exit ramp in Layton, a route we make several times a month at night. I pointed out t |
| Salt lake city (cottonwood heights), UT | 2013 | Bright green basketball sized orb dashed next to me, then up to the sky. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Bright green flashes. ((NUFORC Note: Possible power failure, possibly caused by an exploding transformer?? PD)) |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | 5 orange-gold lights ascend and disappear. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Red glowing sphere that appears out of nowhere hovers, moves up |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Red objects above Salt Lake City. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Bright lights in western sky that hover and change directions. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | I was on my deck with my husband. A bright object appeared in the western sky , in front of the clouds. It was there for 3 minutes and |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Red and white lights above the great salt lake that appeared to be moving. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Close up glowing hovering white orb photographed green in two subsequent locations in Wasatch Mountains |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Strange lights in Salt Lake. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Starlike object that hovers and then slowly moves. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Another day, another sighting. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | Bright object. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2013 | 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 |
| Salt lake valley, UT | 2013 | Stationary light circled by helicopters, |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Two silent white spheres crossing the early morning sky. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | 2 star like objects in sky |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | A stationary bright white light in sky flashing red and blue until gradually fading away. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Bright orange fireballs east of Salt Lake City, UT |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Approx. 2ꯠ agl above downtown salt lake city. Headed straight flight, no sound north west. 7 to 9 bright white lights triangula |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Triangular object stalks us on our way home. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | 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 |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Eight dim red rectangles in a string traveled slowly then went out one by one, appearing to dissolve. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | We saw the flash and we expected a loud explotion but there was nothing. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD)) |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | Red-ish orange "orb" thrree even spaced and asended to unknow altitudes |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2012 | 30+ orange-colored orb-like objects |
| Salt lake, UT | 2012 | Bright orange lights hovering in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sightings of stars?? PD)) |
| Salt cake city, UT | 2011 | 3 crafts dropped off and hovered over and flicked for 45 min |
| Salt lake city (rose park), UT | 2011 | Star crafts |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2011 | Two horizontal rows of 4-5 shimmering spots or lights in formation - it rumbled |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2011 | Unusual formation outside of Salt Lake INT airspace and flight patterns. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2011 | Just wanted to report UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sighting over SLC with a extremley bright orange aura. I know the sound of chopp |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2011 | 3 very bright Orange crafts, Very low and moving in a triangle formation. One by one they shot upward and disappered |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2011 | Orange orb light over Sugarhouse park. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | Possible explainations of what i saw in Salt Lake City last night |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | Orange "flaming" Triangle over Salt Lake City dissappears |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | Faint glowing large object streaks the night sky over Salt Lake City only leaving a trail |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | Bright light over Western Salt Lake moves across the sky then vertically and disappears. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | two round star-like objects falling and moving to the North at a very fast speed |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | 5 red lights over Salt Lake City |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2010 | Triangular shape, multi colored flashing lights hovered over our car, 3 witnesses, no sound, radiant heat from undercarriage. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | Lights like string of pearls dance across Utah sky. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | star-like object changed color from white light to red; moved very fast & maneuvred like no conventional aircraft |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | 6 UFOs seen over Salt Lake City July 10th, 2009 |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | two aircraft flying in formation low to the ground, in the city, of an unknown aircraft design, with no noise. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | UFO's..... I seen over Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 27, 2009!!! |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | pulsating figure. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius, which is quite prominent in the SW sky, at this hour. PD)) |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2009 | Huge flash of light , two wintnesses that i know of when 10 miles apart at same time |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2008 | Greyish Kite looking object over Salt Lake |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2008 | Eastern Salt Lake City disappearing light sighting. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2008 | OBJECT AT FL200 MASKING IN A CLOUD PACING AIRLINER |
| Salt lake, UT | 2008 | Bright stationary/slow moving star in daylight |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Odd flash of bluish-green light |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Green Fireball in Salt Lake. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | stationary red and blue flashing lights in eastern Salt Lake City sky |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Two Cloud like Oval objects came out of the Clouds over the Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City, Utah!!! |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Extremely large black triangle silently hovering with three round lights in each corner on the bottom seen very up close. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Black Manta Ray shaped U.F.O. seen flying over the 1300 light rail staion in Salt Lake City, Utah during the winter of 2007. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2007 | Ball of orange light in morning sky over Salt Lake City |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2006 | Salt Lake City 3 Saucers Of Yellow Blue White Light |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2005 | saucer shaped craft, emitting a glow of grey/white light moving up words from the valley floor |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2005 | UFO sighting over Salt Lake City |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2005 | Flexible mass drops shimmering peices in utahs little cottonwood canyon |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2004 | The person who asked if anyone had information on an Arizona Circle might be interested in this. Check aliendave.com |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2004 | I was standing on a balcony and was facing north/east. I saw a circular shape to the upper right side of my vision. It was much large |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2003 | Live wether cam 5-20-03 Salt lake at noon KSL bright white with red diamond moving . |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2003 | UTAH UFO HUNTERS REPORT: I noticed they were flying in unison. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2003 | UTAH UFO HUNTERS REPORT: I had a strange feeling the object was following me. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2003 | Object w/bright flashing colored lights observed over Wasatch Mtns. 6 days in a row. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | On the morning of July 6񫺒 3 sets of clusters over Salt Lake city. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Fireball across the top of the wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City,Utah USA |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Lights over Salt Lake City. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Cluster Sightings in the skys of Salt lake city. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Three objects seen repeating formation below cloud cover by several witnesses |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | 3 lights in triangle formation over Salty Lake city |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | 2 people saw a slow moving very large "darkness" with faint light reflecting off its leading edge. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Dark, noiseless triangular shaped craft over SLC. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Vanishing UFOs |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2002 | Silvery Object Spotted over Salt Lake City during predicted UFO Fly-Over |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | 4 cone shaped lights (pictures of them) in group of 2s plus 2 possible aircraft. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | Triangle shaped UFO seen over the Salt Lake Valley. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | Black,Triangular shaped object appears in SLC. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | 1 brite lite moveing straite and disaperd |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | Above cloud layer radical course change. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2001 | Hello I saw an object a few years ago and also took pictures .I was outside and saw a very bright object. At first I thought it might |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | Round and metallic about 1/4 to 1/3 third the size of the planes they were were follwoing. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | 08/16/00 22:42 hrs fireball from south to north salt lake county |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | The ufo appeared to wobble in the sky moving very slowly North bound. I'm not sure how large the craft was. but it was a donut or ring |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | a boomerang shaped object moving northwest to the southeast over salt lake city. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | Saucer, 15' diameter, nw direction, no sound |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | seen about 1 mile away. had blue/white chaser lights at the bottom with a big red light on very bottom |
| Salt lake city, UT | 2000 | Two white lights, blinking intermittently every 5-6 seconds. After 1 minute, they became dimmer, until we could no longer see them. |
| Salt lake city (south of), UT | 1999 | large triangular craft came from the west - from the Oquirrh mountains - east toward SLC, then turned north on possible approach flight |
| Salt lake city (west of), UT | 1999 | Between 8:15 and 9:00 I saw an object that seemed to hover over the Ocuirrh mountains just west of Salt Lake or further out It started |
| Salt lake city (west of), UT | 1999 | While traveling east on I-80 outside Wendover NV. we noticed 4 circular and very bright yellow lights. Shortly after noticing this, th |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1999 | Object emerged slowly from above intersection of two contrails (X) and came from SW direction. Contrails ran from NE to SW and from NNE |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1999 | three gold lights in the shape of a triangle , the lights dimmed and disappeared then reappeared in an inverted v. the v shape then had |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1999 | 10:30 pm. stepped out side for a break from work, saw two orange lights in the night sky. first thought was they were just |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1999 | Silent and stealty |
| Salt lake city (south of), UT | 1998 | We were traveling south on I-15 to Utah County from Salt Lake county and to the right as I watched incoming airplanes from the south I |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1998 | A solid Spherical object appears over one of the building and the Westminster College in Salt Lake City. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1998 | Black bat-shaped object flying low, and slow, and silent, with no lights. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1998 | My father was outside looking at stars, and he came in to get me. He told me that he had seen three lights go across the sky at a very |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1998 | UPDATE: Sept 15ᆒ sighting, MUFON report |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1998 | Black (flush w/night sky) triangle craft flew directly overhead. This craft produced no sound. The only reasons we could identify the |
| Provo/orem/salt lake city, UT | 1997 | Saw a white yellowish light performing vertical and horizontial maneouvers in the northern sky. At one point it elongated itself and m |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1997 | bright object, star like, motionless, thenrapid acceleration to SE/SSE |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1997 | 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 |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1997 | I was taking a walk near an elementary school and decided to sit down. It was the evening, but the sky was still bright. I was looking |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1996 | wired hypnsis wheel lights on craft |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1995 | i saw what i saw, i cant deny what my eyes have seen and unless i can speak to the source will never know the truth. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1995 | FAA controller reports seeing bright red/orange obj. streaking E to W in S sky 20 deg. above horizon. Left straight,glowing trail. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1995 | FAA controller, 5 airline employees witness 6 very bright objects streaking N to S in western sky. No radar returns.! Exclnt report!! |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1995 | Father & son witness peculiar, silver-colored obj. moving N to S in daytime sky. Moved very slowly. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1994 | Cylinder of motionless lights in the sky seen over mine |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1993 | The late nite sighting |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1990 | While sitting on the top of a mountain something disk? rose from a group of trees,flew up straight ubove me,stopped,changed direction a |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1980 | Bright starlike object over oil refinery in SLC zig zag over mountainside & went straight up at high speed |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1980 | Stationary silver ball very high in daytime May 1980 observed approximately 45 minutes. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1980 | Something in the Sky over Sugarhouse Park, Salt Lake City - Utah |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1979 | enormous triangle gliding silently overhead |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1975 | Light streaked across the horizon faster than any jet aircraft. |
| Salt lake, UT | 1972 | a real event |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1969 | the craft were moving very slowly and was low just over the top of buildings. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1968 | Utah U F O |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1968 | Reddish ball shaped objects. |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1967 | In June of 1967 while waiting in our car to get into a drive-in movie a saucer shaped craft hovered between us and the Wasatch Mountain |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1963 | SAUCER5 SHAPED AND SILVER |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1960 | I saw the craft in daylight hoovering over me. I viewed it for several moments and then it went straight up at an incredible speed, to |
| Salt lake city, UT | 1957 | 5 Silver Saucers flying from over the Salt Lake, and flying over the Oquirah Mountains towards Dugway |
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