Mysterious Light Over Salt Lake City: A Night That Defied Explanation

I was comfortably seated in a camp chair when my eyes caught a bright white light darting swiftly across the twilight sky toward the east. The glow, unusual and commanding attention, slipped behind the trees, prompting me to rise. Together with my girlfriend, we tracked the light’s movements as it flashed sporadically against the deepening dusk in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The spectacle didn’t end there. As we exited the canyon, the light had halted above the mountain ridge—silent, steady, and shrouded in a faint, almost ethereal haze. We lingered, watching it hover steadily for a couple of minutes, caught between fascination and a creeping sense of unease. The encounter was brief, just long enough to imprint an indelible memory: a moment of the unknown manifesting quietly against the night sky, a haunting reminder of the mysteries that loom beyond our everyday vision.