UFO/UAP Sightings Corelate With Dark Sky Locations

Late one night, while on a camping trip in the mountains of Wyoming with my father and brothers in the late 1990's, I gazed into the clear night sky.  With the lack of any light noise from city lights or even street lights, billions if not trillions of stars where visible for our viewing pleasure.

Looking to the north in the sky we noticed a formation of three objects moving in unison in the shape of a right triangle.  My father a very knowledgeable engineer had no explanation for this sighting at that time.  Thus to our little group this was a UFO (unidentified flying object) or the more modern term UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) sighting.

Just About Everyone Has a Sighting of Some Kind

The vast majority of sighting go unreported,  but I would venture to guess that you could ask any ten people and eight of them would have seen something that they could not explain.  This in mind the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received 757 reports of UAPs between May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024.  With roughly at least 90% of these reports turn out to be explainable as being man made satellites, airplanes, weather balloons, drones, or other airborne clutter.

Utah's UFO/UAP Hotspots

Even though Utah is not the top in state rankings of UAP sightings, most of reported cases correlate with dark sky locations.  And the Beehive State is just rife with dark viewing areas.  And according to Axios Grand County Utah has the highest number of UAP sightings with 340.9 sightings per 100,000 residents between 2000 and 2023.  second place is Wayne County with 315, followed by Emery, Kane and Rich counties each above 200.