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Analysis of Orem, Utah UFO Sightings in 2020
We analyzed all 7 UFO sighting reports in Orem, Utah to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "light" (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- February was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- Friday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- 03/10/20 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 71.43% of total).
UFO Reports in Orem, Utah from 2020
These Orem, Utah UFO reports from 2020 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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150 Blinking lights in a line. Came from the north 150 of them. Went the speed of a satellite but they were all blinking and all the same.
They were all in a line and then looked like the first ones began to slow down and wait for the stragglers to catch up. Went across the whole Eastern sky going south. Neighbors saw and people we called 25 miles away.
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Low in the Eastern sky near Orem Utah on July 14, 2020 at 11:08-11:11. Large white light seen for about a minute. Smaller white light flew into larger light, smaller separated from large white light then turned red.
Both then vanished. I was driving.
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Wing shaped craft seen at night, no lights, no sound. My family and I were having a bonfire on a Saturday night. Around 11:00 pm one of my kids (11) noticed something in the sky.
He first thought it was a bird. My two other kids (15, and 17) and myself also saw it just then. It was moving quickly in the sky at a constant rate of speed.
There were no lights visible, no sound was heard before or after the sighting that would sound at all like an aircraft. It was difficult to see due to the dark night sky as the backdrop. It appeared to be shaped like a wing, no fuselage was visible.
It appeared to large to be a drone, and it covered a distance of ~4-5 miles in about 7-8 seconds. My wife didn't see the craft, however, immediately after the craft left our view she told the kids to get inside and go to bed.
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Driving into Timpanogas Trailer Park, and all of the sudden I saw 4 main white focal points creating a Rectangle pirimeter around dark space. Then all the sudden I saw a doorish shape "materialize" out of redish Amber little dots in the middle of the dark space. Then it went out of view.
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Observed about 20-25 objects that were appearing from the West and heading East and then disappearing into the night sky. They were in a straight line and evenly spaced apart from one another. There were no sounds from the objects.
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Very bright white light, motionless in western Utah night sky, sat still for 15 minutes then vanished in a blink of an eye. My mother (who is a skeptic and doesn’t necessarily believe in UFO’s) called to inform me about a very bright white light she noticed while driving home, as I went outside, sure enough a large single bright white light was shining strongly through Utah’s thick smoggy air, no other stars or planets were visible in that portion of the western Utah sky due to the smog. It seemed to be sitting stagnate, no changes, no movement, no pulsation, almost as if it was pretending to be a star but was noticeably too bright to be one.
using a star chart I could not identify any star or planet in its location. I looked down at my phone and when I looked up it was gone, only darkness remained with no sight of this mysterious light. Vanished in a blink of an eye.
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My Wife, Brother-in-law, Sister-in-law and I were driving over to my Mother-in-laws house after seeing a movie together. My wife was driving, I was in the passenger seat, my Brother-in-law was in the driver’s side rear seat and my Sister-in-law was in the passenger side rear seat. We made a right turn from Main St onto 2000 S and had just begun to descend the hill when my Brother-in-law said “What is that?” My wife then said “I don’t know! That is weird.
” My Sister-In-Law saw it third but remained quiet. I responded a little dismissively at first and asked, “Are you guys just looking at the moon?” They responded “No! Look!” My wife had slowed the car to almost a complete stop and I looked out of the drivers side windows toward where they were gesturing. A large flat rectangular dull grey craft with lots of lights was moving slowly just over the houses.
I was so amazed and alarmed that such a large craft was being operated in such close proximity to homes. At! the time I first saw it it was moving slowly but when my Wife and Brother-In-Law first saw it it was hovering. It had two rows of approximately 6 white lights on the bottom of the craft.
It had rows of red and blue lights on the sides and top. Some of the red and blue lights were flashing alternately. The lights were large and seemed to be structured.
They seemed disproportionately large and there were so many of them. We detected no sound from the craft. A helicopter in that close of proximity would have been loud.
I’m not aware of any drones that are that large but I would assume that a giant drone at that close of distance would have been loud as well. The windows were rolled up during the sighting so we cannot confirm that it had no sound but it definitely didn’t have any conventional flight characteristic sounds that would have been audible at those close proximities with such a large craft. We estimate that the craft was somewhere between 30-40ft long.
It moved slowl! y along the row of homes but biased slightly toward the street! we were driving on. It passed through the field of view of the driver’s side windows and into the field of view of the rear window. It had traveled closer to the road as it was heading eastward.
It appeared quite large with so many lights. My mind was trying to establish what category of craft it fit into but it didn’t fit into any category that I have witnessed before. It was so flat and rectangular and quiet with so many lights, it seemed so different than anything I was familiar with.
We continued to watch it fly slow and low and quietly down the street. My wife started to turn the car around so we could follow it and we watched it disappear Eastward below the row of houses at the top of the hill. It appeared quite large still as it passed the houses at the top of the hill.
It passed so low over the top of the houses that it quickly passed below our field of view. I’m a Biomedical Engineer. I investigate technical challenges/issues for a living.
This sighting left me with only q! uestions and no answers. All of us are college educated and 1 is currently pursuing their PhD. All of us were left quite perplexed over what we observed last Friday night.
We thank you in advance for your time and effort spent investigating this sighting.
Orem, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Orem, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 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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February | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Orem, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Orem, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/10/20 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
04/18/20 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
02/12/20 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
02/07/20 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
08/13/20 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Orem, Utah UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 5 reported sightings | 71.43% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
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