Light over Mapleton, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Light swept like a searchlight across a field in front of my house and suddenly disappeared, no engine noises.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-08-05 → 2013-08-22
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February 8, 2022 · 5:47 PM · CIRCLE
Mapleton, UT
One evening in early February at 5:47pm I went outside so my dog could do her business and I looked up at the moon which was above my house. I then noticed what looked like a planet in the sky near the moon, over some farm fields by my house. However, it was too early to be able to see a planet. It was small, circular and light in color. It did not move when I was looking at it. I took photos and video of it, then went inside to tell my partner. He looked out the window and confirmed I wasn’t seeing things. Still in the house, I opened my SkyView app to make sure it wasn’t a planet and indeed it was not. It’s also too large at that distance to be a drone or at least a civilian drone. I went back outside and it was gone, but I took more photos / video of where it had been for documentation. All of this was within a four minute span. I zoomed into the photos I had taken and adjusted the brightness and exposure and it’s somewhat triangular in shape with rounded corners and seems to be illuminated (perhaps from sun reflection or lights on it?). Also, it has what looks to be an aura / haze around it?! I wish I had kept my eyes on it the entire time to see what happened to it! I’m going to attach the evidence I got. Now I’m supposed to give some personal background. I previously worked at a fast paced job in NYC as a manager in analytics consulting. We had a sighting in NYC as well; two smaller wobbling flying saucers going down the street between buildings by our apartment! My partner saw them through binoculars and I saw them with my own eyes. I will post that encounter under New York State sightings. Anyway, we moved back home to Utah and once we had kids we didn’t want a nanny so I chose to stay at home to be the primary caretaker and I don’t regret it. I find the paranormal interesting. However, I am a skeptic and try to debunk something before believing it. I’m a spiritual person but consider myself agnostic - I believe in something higher than us, just not sure anyone can say what it is. What I saw is a head scratcher for sure. Skinwalker Ranch is a couple of hours away and what I saw looks exactly like what they’ve seen over the ranch multiple times if you’ve seen the show.
May 2, 2017 · 3:30 PM · DISK
Mapleton, UT
On May 2nd, 2017 around 3:30pm my partner and I were in our apartment on the corner of 42nd street and 11th Avenue which had big walls of windows. Our unit was on the southeast corner looking south on 11th Avenue. Down about 2 blocks we saw two flying saucers (disc shaped) with a slight wobble to them like from 1950’s sci-fi movies flying north on 11th Avenue towards our building (Sky Apartments). My partner grabbed the binoculars and got a closer look at them. I saw them with my own eyes and there’s no explanation other than UAP/UFO. It happened so fast and sudden regrettably we didn’t have time to grab video / photos. They then went behind a tall building headed West towards the Hudson and then we lost sight of them. From a distance, I’m guessing they were approximately 60-70” wide and 30-40” tall in a saucer disc shape and silver color with no windows. This was not a dream and we don’t do drugs or even drink alcohol. I don’t know if it’s relevant but it’s worth mentioning, this happened two days before the President of the US was to give a speech at the Intrepid museum, one block west on the Hudson.