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Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 26 UFO sighting reports in Cedar City, Utah to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (13 reports, 50.00% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 19.23% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 19.23% of total).
- 2023 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 26.92% of total).
- 11/16/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 7.69% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (15 reports, 57.69% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Cedar City, Utah
These Cedar City, Utah UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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From what I have video of they are circling above three peaks at the big dipper Every night thy show up. Circling around. They move directly depending on the night.
There was less of them last night. You best send someone out to get good videos before they are gone. I have full video if you wanted me to send them.
The files are to large. I do not dare edit them. The last time I did that, the video was erased!.
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Every night around 11:30 PM. they have disabled my truck. I'm on a different job site so they are not doing anything at the distance I'm at.
This has been going on for weeks. At another job site, a few weeks ago, they were brighter and more numerous. You can see in the video they are moving in a circle.
They are not as steady as the video shows. They move like fireflies, and I almost got video of them going high to low. They changed course once I started recording.
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They come into view as the circle around, sometimes in pairs Every night, they are flying around three peaks. One has been close, once on video it left. They disabled my fuel truck twice, and I have seen two beings on the ground with me.
They are large, and fast. Every night you guys can go out on highway 56, or be north of there and see them now at 11:30 PM. I'm not at the same job site, that I had the close encounter of the 3rd kind.
I will warn you, you will have flu like symptoms if they get close to you, and would not suggest being alone after dark west of cedar city after dark.these guys can run on all fours.
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Fueling equipment at the BZI project, I watched ufo's flying around above 3 peaks. Something was there with me. Fueling at the BZI project west of cedar, I seen lights to the north, I started recording, something ran in front of my truck, flashing my headlights, I turned to record it, I seen the bright lights, and the first UFO.
it was going south to north, then faded. I watched one after the other, coming left to right, then right to left. I got video of some of them, but editing here at home, my video was cut and not uploaded.
The last time I seen them, I was in my truck, they pulled my electrical, and partially disabled my fuel pump. This time, as I was out of my truck, what was on the ground with me did no harm.
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Something was watching me on the ground and sky Something blocked my headlights out. I was recording lights I thought might be UFO'S, it turned out, Something was to my left, it was tall on all fours and ran as soon as I turned the camera to it. I didn't see the light above me to my left until then.
They had already disabled my fuel truck twice in previous nights out there.
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Lights resembling the movement if fireflies, centered around the star lowest in the sky, north of cedar. Continuing west to east. When first spotted after work from my driveway, lights resembling fireflies in the sky, were moving up, down, back and forth, only visible on the horizon around the planet that's 1/4 from northern horizon from Cedar city.
Once I reached my back porch, I grabbed my binoculars, and witnessed a steady stream of staggered formation glowing gold objects. The were only visible as they past above and below that area around the star. They had stopped their eradic movement, as 4 or five passed in formation, high and low, in a near continuous trajectory.
This went on for an hour. There was a small brake between the next group, but they kept their staggered formations high and low. One broke formation, and went high to low in a dropping maneuver, but quickly turned and joined the next passing formation.
I witnessed this through my binoculars, while on the phone with a friend who had just arrived home. He could not see them from the north side of cedar city. This was the meteor shower they have been talking about.
I seen them with tails, moving double the speed of these craft. Satellites, don't act like them, and as I watched them in the first, they are absolutely agile enough to mimic the movement of fireflies. This is my second such incident in a month, I work night in the field fueling equipment alone.
This time I had just arrived home with no issues until then. If they are gold flying soccer's, they are not coming as one gold craft, they are here in the hundreds. Nobody cares anymore, maybe you guys do, maybe you don't, but what is happening is an invasion.
Biden shouldn't have shot a few of them down, maybe things would be as they were.
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Two headlights that were not blinking, hovering across the railroad track. It turned red when I stopped to video it. Driving on a dirt road to one of my job sites, I seen two lights like headlights shining at me on the other side of my equipment I fuel at night.
Once I got to my equipment, I got my phone out to record, the object turned red, and stated to move north west. I videoed the object until a helicopter passed over me in my fuel truck. I felt safe to get out then, so I started my truck up, engaged my PTO fuel pump, reved my truck to 1200 RPMS and got out.
My truck has an idle shut off, so when the PTO is engaged, the truck will not shut down. As I was out, Taking numbers from the equipment, my truck shut down. I was in shock, this has only happened one time before in deep snow.
The electrical plug, was pulled off due to ice, this time, I hadn't drove over anything that could have ripped that plug off! The hair on my head stood up, I was not alone, and now, my work lights were off. I walked around my truck, looked under it to see the wire hanging as if something pulled it off to get me in the dark alone. I plugged it in, started my truck up, only to see three helicopters flying around where the craft was hovering.
They are not here for peace and love, they tried to possibly contact me, attack, or abduct me. I had a armed encounter with a flying saucer when I was 14, 1989, hunting elk above deer creek. These whistle blowers, have not been on the ground in the daylight, having their saucer in their cross hairs, I have.
They are not going to stop now. I can not fuel at night armed, it is against company policy. My truck has strobe lights, and bright halogen work lights, they know my location nightly.
The feds may need to watch me fir a few weeks from a distance at night. PS they are on the ground now, I feel they are not just watching us, they are here for more this time.
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A star-like light which diverged into two lights which moved apart from one another and faded from view in the night sky. My girlfriend and I stepped out onto my front porch and I immediately looked up at the stars as I usually do. I noticed an out of place very bright star with an apparent magnitude of around 1 in the northeastern sky, about 60 degrees above the horizon.
Almost immediately after spotting it, the light broke into two lights of an apparent magnitude of about 0. These lights moved away from one another at a steady velocity and both faded in brightness until they were no longer visible. One moved northwards, the other southwards.
They each moved across about 1/10 of the sky before they faded from sight in less than 5 seconds. I saw them diverge and move apart, and when I pointed it out my girlfriend commented on the bright moving light, as she only saw one. We are both college students with a paper published in the field of astronomy, and have both spent a lot of time looking at stars and the night sky.
These objects moved similarly to a satellite, but the bright! ness was unusual. Unless I happened to look up as two unusually bright satellites crossed paths, I cannot think of any explanation for their identity.
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Odd yellow light came closer and appeared to have a non-plane type movement, pulsed or had lights rotating around it. I was driving 10 miles west of Cedar City, UT at 7:05 in the evening. Headed west and saw peculiar light in the SW sky.
Watched it, because it didn't look like a plane or planet. Developed a tail and thought it was a meteor. But it didn't burn out, it kept going and getting closer.
As it became closer (heading towards east s/e) the tail was lights that revolved around the object or maybe the object seemed to "pulse". The lights were multicolored and the object would disappear for periods. 5-10 seconds at a time.
Appeared to be beneath clouds, as I originally thought it might be going behind clouds. Pulled over and shut off truck to get better look. After disappearing and then reappearing 3-4 times it disappeared for good.
It was difficult to follow optically for some reason. Like it was shifting or out of focus. After I got home I could see no sign of it but another plane was moving in the same direction.
Couldn't tell what type of plane that was. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD)).
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Solid, alternating green and red lights hover and move in a consistent area. A pair of hovering lights was seen north-north west of Cedar City. They appeared to be a few miles away.
At a glance, it seemed like one solid, bright green light hovering in the sky. Then we noticed it change from a bright solid red to a bright solid green. Upon using binoculars, we found that it was actually a pair of red or green lights.
The object hovered for several seconds, moved quickly and linearly in a random direction, then hovered again, motionless in the sky. It repeated in this fashion several times. At regular intervals, the lights changed back and forth from solid green to solid red.
This could have been some sort of drone, but I've never seen anything quite like it before. We lost sight of the aircraft when it appeared to be landing. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Seven bright orange glowing spheres appeared for 15 seconds then disappeared. Bright Orange sphere. The location of sighting was 6 miles west of Cedar City, Utah.
On the evening of February 11, 2014 between 23:45 and 24:00 hours, I observed very bright orange spheres appear and disappear 270 degrees west about 10 degrees above the western horizon. The first 6 objects were about the size of a tennis ball. They would appear and disappear at the same spot above the horizon.
They would appear and disappear about 1 to 2 minutes apart and within 5 degrees of each other. They did not rise and fall like throwing a ball into the air. They appeared 7 different times.
The orange objects appeared to be very far away (50+ miles). During the middle of the appearances I heard and felt a sonic boom. It shook our house.
That was the only noise I heard. The last time the bright orange light appeared it was much closer and 20 degrees above the horizon and moving slowly Southwest to Southeast. It first appeared about 235 degrees in the southwest.
This time I could see behind the bright orange sphere a long tail of orange embers trailing behind. The embers didn’t appear to be falling but they just trailed off directly behind the object sort of like a comet. This time the light was pulsating for 10-12 seconds and then it went dark.
It was about the size of a basketball thus it appeared much closer and brighter than the first 6 sightings. I called the Iron County Sheriff’s office to report it and see if anyone else had seen it. Apparently I’m the only one who observed it.
Almost exactly an hour later at 1:48 Mountain Standard Time two jets flew over one directly behind the first. They came from exactly where the first 6 orange lights first appeared to the west and flew directly northeast on a 45 degree bearing.
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Noiseless, extremely fast pair of lights. Every evening I step outside, if it's clear, and stare at the sky for 5 minutes or so. This particular evening I was looking at a couple of jetliners crossing the sky when, immediately over my head I observed two dim lights, next to each other, moving quite rapidly from North to South.
It was probably only five seconds or so until this thing was out of sight as it was moving extremely fast, unlike the planes that seemed to crawl across the sky. This object made no sound whatsoever. I went out an hour later and was lucky enough to observe the ISS flying over, but did not see the object again.
Whatever it was was VERY fast and was definitely a structured flying object.
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There were three separate craft that we videoed flying in front of the Cedar Mountain range orange in color and very fast. Not sure what we saw however are curious as to what we have seen. We do have video of three the first night 03/15/2013.
I went out on to the front porch at my parents house to let the dog out, I saw a strange light moving across the sky, it appeared to be on the mountain road but did not turn where you would have run out of road. I had my dad come to look at it as it was flying he caught the tail end of the first one, and my brother came to see what the commotion was about. it had disappeared to the north sky.
As I was describing where it had came from another appeared out of the same area and we also caught it on video, looking at the video run time was 40 plus seconds and it was out of sight south to north, then the third appeared and was as described. The next night was the same exact thing except that the time was 21:00 hrs, and there was only one at the time. We were talking on the front porch ready to leave and heard a rumbling boom, there has been l! ots of these boom and rumble for weeks, and my brother said to us look there it is again!! same as the night before south to north.
The objects were all orange ball shaped or oval bright orange and traveled at a high rate of speed no sound except for the second night as described, the only time you could hear jet sounds was when there we jets flying in the sky. It was a flying object because the mountain behind the object is snow covered and then past the other mountain ranges. but was as low 7500 feet to be seen in front of the mountain ranges.
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Large fireball like light hovering in place. saw a LARGE orange, redish light about 5x bigger than any aircraft lighting, did not flash or move at all. it seem to just burn in place for a min then POOF it went up and the it was gone.
nothing. i am 100 percent sure it was not a aircraft or flare. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Sighting occurred at 19:40 hrs. (Central) on December 21, 2012. We have had to temporarily amend the time, so that our software does not see the case in the future.
We will reset the time, at a later date. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Time changed back to 19:40. PD)).
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Several orange orbs in sky and then disappearing. My family and I live about 20 miles north from where the sweet spot was for the annular eclipse. My family and friends had actually been at the sweet spot watching the eclipse and we were returning home for the night.
We were about to go into the house when I saw a bright orange light in the sky toward the side of our house, so I walked over to investigate. When I got to the side yard I saw that there were many of these orange orbs, all appeared solid and they were flying low to the ground, barely above the trees, however they didn't make a sound! They were moving from south to north. I like to think they were flying from the sweet spot too.
:) I quickly started calling my family and friends over to witness this, and my friends started taking pictures and video. he orbs were in groups of three and four, no pattern, and they faded and disappeared right above my house. We could see others coming from the south as the ones nearest us were fading and disappearing.
We saw at least twelve orbs, and I was able to take pictures with my cell phone. Usually my cell phone doesn't take very good pictures, but I was pretty impressed with the pictures it took that night! I wish my phone could've taken video. Part of why I've waited so many days to report this sighting was so that I could include my friends videos and pictures, but they live out of state and left the next day, so I've decided not to wait for their pics and vids, and just report this sighting with my pics.
It was incredible to see these objects, and now I can't stop looking at that part of the sky hoping to see more. The lights appeared to be orbs when seen with the naked eye, but in the pictures I've included they seem to be different shapes. In the picture with three objects, you can see one fading and the two that were right behind it are brighter but they also faded and disappeared when they got to the same spot in the sky.
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String of flashing lights widely spaced moving steadily through western sky from north to south While driving north and then west, we noticed a string of 8 to 10 flashing lights widely spaced apart above the horizon and seeming to move toward the west. We observed them for about 15 minutes until they receded in the south.
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Large String of perfectly spaced strobes flashing in a chasing pattern along the entire string over Cedar City, UT A large string of perfectly spaced strobes flashing in a chasing pattern along the entire string. It passed over north of Cedar City, UT after dark and streched from the north east all the way across the sky to the north west moving slowly in that direction. I was in a quiet location and could not hear any noise.
After the event I called a friend on the local Police Dept. who said he also witnessed the event and he said there was lots of calls into dispatch reporting the event.
Full Report Text:
Bright light over Cedar City Utah nightly around 8pm Somewhere between 8pm and 8:15pm a very bright white object, round when using a telescope appears over cedar city. It comes from a different location each time, but mostly comes from either the north or the west, goes in a straight line across the city then when it gets over the mountain it begins to dim. It first turns yellow then red then with a small flash like a camera flash it disappears.
It has been happening nightly to several times a week for the past 2 months. The color of the bright white is like a very bright halogen. Brighter than any star or moon or sun.
It’s white light is just as bright if it is coming towards us or going away from us. It’s intensity never changes. There are no blinking lights of red or any other color.
It is steady and strong till it dims and disappears. There is an airport nearby but no airplane has anywhere near this bright intensity. It is probably around 10,000 feet, moves very smoothly.
No beams of light come from it. The light is just itself glowing brightly. When viewed via binoculars or telescope the shape cannot be seen until it dims and turns yellow or red.
Then it is clearly a round object. The flash is almost as if it is entering some type of fast transport mode either leaving with a speed beyond visible sight or entering something and disappearing. It was first noticed by my wife and I while dropping kids off at grandmas.
Then the following day it came again. Since them we make it a nightly ritual to be outside by 8 to wait for it. When seen it is enormous.
Larger than any star or plane in the area. It is relevant to 2 or 3 times the size of Jupiter as seen from our yard. The intensity of the light gives it a starry appearance with offshoots of brilliance.
Last night we had the whole family over, 8 of us and we all watched it as it came over then disappeared over the landslide area in the canyon. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a star, we suspect. PD)).
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Bright, white, star-like UFO over Cedar City at 1500 on sunny day. I saw a faint white light, like a dim star, but it was the middle of the day against the blue, sunny sky while driving north on I-15. I was in construction, so I had to keep looking away, but I looked down then back up and it grew brighter and brighter, until it looked like a very bright planet but a little bigger.
I thought it was a plane, banking, with the sun reflecting off of it, but it dimmed again, grew bright again, then disappeared. I kept looking for a plane for minutes after and there was nothing. Only other thing I think it could've been naturally was a meteor that was coming straight at me and burned up, as it didn't move, it hovered.
Amazing as a skeptic. very excited, as it was my first UFO experience!.
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stead single white dot heading southeast then rose straight up and vanished Outside I was walking my guests to their truck while on the stairs we saw a little round white light heading southeast at a steady pace. No other colored lights or flashing lights were seen as it moved across the sky. As it got near the mountains it started rise or head up because the light started to become more and more faint and it disapeared.
Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 13 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Friday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Saturday | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/16/11 | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
08/28/23 | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
09/10/23 | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
02/11/14 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
05/14/10 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 15 reported sightings | 57.69% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Cedar City, Utah
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Cedar City, Utah.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 7 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2015 | 2 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 4 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2002 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 2002 |
1999 | 2 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 1999 |
1977 | 1 UFO Reports | Cedar City, Utah UFO Sightings in 1977 |
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