As I was scanning Google Earth like I often do, something unusual stood out to me along the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake—a shape that didn’t belong in the shallow water. I zoomed in and, clear as day, there was a white single-engine aircraft, half-submerged just off the shoreline.
Naturally, I started digging. Using Google Earth’s historical imagery, I pinpointed the plane’s appearance to sometime between October 2022 and July 2024. I measured the wingspan with the built-in ruler—it came out to around 36.7 feet. That’s the size you'd expect for a small 4-6 seat aircraft.
So I hit the internet, looking for any reports of a crash in that area during that time. I did find one—there was a crash involving a white aircraft in 2024, but it happened over 48 miles away at Pineview Reservoir. Totally different location. This one in the lake? Nothing. No headlines. No FAA report. No local news. It's like it never happened—or it was never meant to be found.
That’s what bothers me. If this isn’t a known or reported wreck, then someone’s missing a plane—and possibly missing people. People with families who’ve been left in the dark. If nobody knows this is out there, then it’s possible no one ever came looking.
We may be looking at an undiscovered crash site. If that’s true, then the right thing to do is get eyes on it, get divers in the water, and figure out what really happened. Someone out there might still be waiting for answers.
Scott C. Waring, UFO Sightings Daily
