NUFORC Sighting 166532

Occurred: 2022-01-31 17:35 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-02-01 17:29 Pacific
Duration: 20 - 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Draper, UT, USA
Location details: We saw a light in the eastern sky near Lone Peak Mountain south of Salt Lake City above the mountain

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

We saw a light hovering that appeared to have another smaller orbiting sphere, it appeared out of nowhere and disappeared as suddenly

My wife and I were enjoying the sunset around 5:35pm on January, 31 2022 when we noticed a bright white dot in the sky. We were looking eastward toward a peak called Lone Peak in the Wasatch Mountain range. The only land behind our home is BLM land with no buildings or lights just mountain terrain and high desert vegetation so we had a clear unobstructed view of this. We thought it was a star at first but the time of day seemed too early for a star to be so visible and bright. We watched it for several minutes and observed that there appeared to be two dots with one stationary and the other appearing to orbit the other or move side to side either in front or behind. As the sunset progressed the colors changed on the peaks but the object just stayed in the same place so we had a pretty good idea that this object was stationary and not moving with the orbit or movement of the sky. We watched this for about 20-25 minutes then the lights got dimmer and two smaller lights appeared below the center object so now there were 3 separate lights lined up vertically and they all got dimmer and dimmer then disappeared. That’s all we saw and for the next 45 minutes we continued to look in the same direction hoping to see something else but only to see Orion appear in the night sky. It was great!

Posted 2022-03-04