Utah resident shocked after capturing eerie close-up footage of flashing UFO: ‘I was blown away’

A Utah resident has been left shocked after capturing what appeared to be a triangle-shaped multi-colored UFO flashing in the night sky.

The unidentified Reddit user, who goes by Cruxstew on the platform, uploaded a 50-second video of the May 2 sighting from their home in Southern Utah. 

The video showed a small orb in the sky rapidly changing colors. As the resident zoomed in on the object, the light flashed between red, blue, green and white in a matter of seconds, and appeared to have an aura surrounding it. 

‘I was blown away by what I saw,’ the person wrote on the UFOs Reddit channel. 

They also claimed that this video is just one a dozen unidentified phenomena that lit up the Southern Utah sky that night.   

The video shows a small orb in the sky rapidly changing colors in the sky 

‘This is one of over a dozen similar UAP’s I saw that night,’ the Utah resident wrote, before adding that there were ‘similar sightings by multiple people in this area.’ 

‘The multi-color pulsating light was triangular throughout the whole video until it disappeared,’ the user added. ‘No other lights, when zoomed in, were triangular. 

‘The triangular shape wasn’t from a lens artifact or distortion. The light wasn’t from a plane or satellite and it wasn’t stationary.’ 

‘This is out in the middle of the desert. There were over 15 of these objects within an hour,’ they continued. ‘These were moving horizontal across the horizon at variable speeds, much faster than planes at seemingly similar distances.’

Although they did not disclose where exactly in Southern Utah they lived, the Beehive State is one of the best places to spot the unusual, according to research done by the University of Utah. 

‘I was blown away by what I saw,’ the person wrote on the UFO Reddit channel. ‘This is one of over a dozen similar UAP’s I saw that night’ 

The western part of the US, including Utah, have lots of flat land and open skies, offering greater potential to spot a UFO than in more mountainous or populated areas. 

In addition, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico have links to UFO conspiracies from Area 51 in Nevada to the Skinwalker Ranch in Ballard, Utah, where UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) have been recorded by secret government programs and the popular History Channel show The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 

‘People are out and looking skyward,’ Richard Medina, associate professor of geography at the University of Utah, said in the study that analyzed a 20-year period across the 21st Century, from 2001 to 2020.

‘The idea is that if you have a chance to see something, then it’s more likely that you’re going to see unexplained phenomena in the sky’.

Pictured: The Skinwalker Ranch in Utah’s Uintah Basin 

On History Channel’s The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, the team of researchers frequently record evidence of UAPs (pictured)

‘There’s more technology in the sky than ever before so the question is: What are people actually seeing? It’s a tough question to answer, and it is an important one because any uncertainty can be a potential threat to national security,’ he added. 

Moab, Utah, is the number one spot in the state for UFO sightings. It also ranked 22nd in the US, according to Axios. 

Nearly all of Utah’s counties had more reported UFO sightings per capita than the average of 34.3 sightings per 100,000 residents between 2020 and 2023, according to an Axios report. 

The Salt Lake Metro area had 47.1 sights per 100,000 residents. Grand County had 340.9, while Wayne County had 315. 

Despite the many alleged sightings across the US, most UFO claims turn out to be balloons, drones, ‘airborne clutter,’ or military activity, according to Axios.