NUFORC UFO Sighting 182560

Occurred: 2023-09-14 12:02 Local
Reported: 2024-08-09 11:04 Pacific
Duration: 2 nights Sept. 13 and14
No of observers: 3

Location: , Utah, United States
Location details: Lake Powell near Bullfrog Marina

Shape: Circle
Color: Variety of Colors
Estimated Size: orbs were anywhere between 2-3 diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: every where around us
Angle of Elevation: 20
Closest Distance: good question, maybe 40 feet at the closest
Estimated Speed: Very slow moving
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams

Many orbs observed near our campsite for two consecutive nights. Have a short video of one orb

A recent trip to the beautiful Lake Powell, Utah turned out to be the most profound experience of my 61 years on this earth. Fortunately, my experience was also witnessed by my two younger guests making my story very credible. If I hadn’t someone else to back this story, I would truly be questioning my sanity as it was so profound it would be hard to convince others of this unworldly experience. It’s still hard to convince myself of what we witnessed.

I want to point this out right now. I’m not one to embellish this—I don’t have to! I will gladly undergo any investigation. I’m absolutely willing to be hooked up to a lie-detector, given truth serum or whatever. My testament here is an absolute bond to anyone, man or God. What I tell you here is the absolute truth with no fantastical additions. I have two other friends that would stand as witness as I do.

Throughout this ordeal and that evening, the three of us would check on what each other was seeing to verify that we were indeed seeing the same thing. We were often looking in different directions but would frequently verify what the other was seeing.

We arrived at the Bullfrog Marina of Lake Powell on September 12, 2023. We planned to camp and rent a boat for the next 4 days for an exciting and relaxing time at one of the more beautiful places on earth. After searching for the perfect campsite, we found a great site that we would call home for the next few days. Little did we know what we were about to experience!

I’m an avid stargazer and this area of Lake Powell is one of the better dark-sky areas as there is very little light pollution. I purposely chose these dates due to the new moon on September 14th. The skies are at their viewing prime if star watching is your goal. The Milky Way stands out brilliantly and you can see the incredible dimension and complex intricacies of this celestial mass. It’s easy to spend hours just looking at this marvel.

We camped in an area called Stanton Creek which is a primitive camp area at Lake Powell that allows easy access to the water and a good place to moor the boat safely. It has its own bay with camping allowed on either side.

The first night was a typical night and we spent our time enjoying our campfire, a good meal, and spirited discussion for the evening. It was cloudy that night, so of course we didn’t spend much time viewing the skies.

The next evening, however, would prove to be radically different. Early in the evening, the skies allowed us a clear, beautiful view of the stars. As the evening progressed, clouds began arriving obscuring our once fabulous view. Since our eyes were no longer locked on the stars, we began noticing curiosities around us. Across the bay, something caught our eye that would keep us captivated for the next four plus hours and curiously haunt us for the rest of our lives.

What we initially thought had to be a drone was quickly dismissed as we observed this thing moving in a way that ruled it out as a drone. My young friend is a licensed drone pilot and uses one in his profession so I didn’t question his assessment. It didn’t take but minutes of observing this object, that he basically stated “That’s not a drone.” The movement of this object was far too dynamic compared to a drone.

If I could describe the movement of this object, I would say it’s like a pesky fly flying in front of you with its erratic up and down and sideways shifts. Also, this object would cover distances so quickly that it didn’t seem drone-like. It also flew so close to the rocky out-cropping—AT NIGHT-- that smart drone pilots would not dare. This was not a drone!

Before I dive too deep describing this object, I want you to know that there will be so much more to describe as there were many more that we witnessed that night. Yes, many more with many different behaviors and visual manifestations. Get ready for “profound” as I mentioned earlier.

So, let’s start with the first one, and the more interesting sighting. When I first spotted this dazzling object, my mind was set on drone mode and I simply dismissed it as somebody playing with a toy. I want to say it was about midnight when we first started observing. I quickly alerted my friends and got them watching along with me. Like I said, we quickly deduced that this wasn’t a drone but our minds couldn’t grasp what the reality was. The reality is that we were looking at these very energetic, star-like orbs. It was a brilliant shine with a very clear, almost bluish hue. Get ready, here’s where it gets weird!

Underneath this very bright orb was what seemed a separate entity that shined of a brilliant red. This object was crazy looking and I would describe it as almost an octopus like shape, this is no joke folks! It seemed to have a main body and leg like, trailing legs giving it the look of an octopus. It appeared to have several legs but I couldn’t give you a count. These legs, had a small, red orbs that were brilliant in their shine. These orbs appeared to me to be incrementally spaced with about 6-7 points on the leg.

These two objects literally danced with each other for quite some time with the red entity underneath the white orb above. It often looked like the two entities were connected as they flitted around but suddenly would separate with a small distance between them. The white orb broadcast a brilliant shine on the rocks nearby, giving it an almost spotlight quality. The red object also reflected but was much dimmer.

As we were observing these crazy things dance around for a good length of time, we began to notice some other white orbs nearby, acting in a much different fashion. The first sighting was the only one that evening that had the red entity associated with it. I, regretfully missed the moment the red entity disappeared due to trying to watch a larger expanse of area. After that, we never saw the red object again.

So, there we were absolutely spellbound by what we were seeing. It was stunning, it was hard to comprehend, it seemed unbelievable. I absolutely lost track of time but four hours would roll by with no shortage of odd, odd, very odd things to observe. Believe it or not, we finally decided to go to bed at four in the morning because we were exhausted, even though the show continued!
The initial white orb-which seemed to gleam slightly brighter than the others and began to really move around a lot more once the red entity was gone. This was all happening on the other side of the bay at nearly ground level from our estimates. This orb passed back and forth several times above other campers, apparently without alerting anyone to their presence. The orb, on occasion, would shine a spotlight like beam towards the ground or rock areas. It was kind of like it was searching for something. We could hear the camper’s voices earlier in the evening but never heard a voice when this orb floated overhead. Of course, it was past most people’s bedtime at 1ish in the morning.

All of these orbs would dance around, travel, then eventually disappear. Some would reappear as they had before, do nearly the same dance, travel the same direction, all to disappear again. This went on for hours! There was no rhythm, no order, no definite pattern to their behavior but just random antics, again and again and again.

I occasionally would start looking at a random one that seemed to shine a bit brighter than the rest. As I stared at them, I would suddenly feel that they knew and they would appear to approach directly towards me in a perfectly straight-line. More than once I swiped my arm/hand in front of me because it felt like they were right in front of me. This happened to me about 5 or 6 times. It was very disorienting, slightly disturbing when this would happen. I would feel a bit dizzy and unsteady on my feet from a few of these encounters. I was certainly alarmed, but I never felt in danger or afraid.

Strange huh? Guess what, it gets even more bizarre. When I said profound, I meant it. I’m not sure there really is a word to capture the essence of this experience.

After watching these objects across the bay for what seemed about two hours, it occurred to me to look around and do a good 360-degree scan of our area. Guess what? They were all around us and above! We were absolutely in the midst of large gathering of these orbs, these shining balls, these curious little entities. I want to call them earthly, as they were not way up in the heavens with the stars, but I want to call them celestial as they were not from this earth. I don’t know how to think of these things as they possessed a combination of both earthly and celestial origin. That’s possible, right?

Here’s just one oddity of this. When it occurred to me that they were above us, I began to watch these things intently. They didn’t really move much like the earlier orbs, but seemed to phase in and out somewhat and jig and jag occasionally. The strange part about this group is that they seemed to be part and parcel of a strange, very low cloud system. The clouding around these orbs seemed to be an integral part to the group. My impression was it seemed like frog spawn with the embryo at the center of a gelatinous mass. Even though the clouds were a little hard to see, we both described them as having a curious structure. I’m not sure that what structure I saw I could put into words or pictures!

So, this odd cloud mass above us had a small roundish opening where you didn’t see the cloud mass. However, we could not see the celestial stars past the opening. I seriously tried to see if I could even see one star beyond this cloud system and I couldn’t.

What I was seeing was another outrageous part to this story. Remember, I had two other people with me that saw it exactly how I did! In this roundish opening, a single, slightly brighter orb resided slightly off-center of the opening. This shiny orb had its own curious cloud-like mass surrounding it. It’s like that was a special star with its special cloud round it. This orb seemed to try and mimic a real star but I knew that it wasn’t, it just wasn’t! My impression of this stary orb was that it had a higher order in the group. It didn’t dart around but it did move slowly and slightly. It would, every so often, disappear up into the haze above it and eventually reappear again.

In the same clearing, there was a very different mini-star like group that seemed to have a weird association with the “Main Orb.” This clustery group of shiny points had a similar shape to the red entity’s lower leggy part. Same shape, sort of, but a dimmer cluster of white shine. There seemed to be a subordinate or dominant structure amongst them but in a very agreeable order.
These two peculiarities seemed to ebb and tide between each other in a flowy salsa set on super slow speed.

Throughout the night we kept our heads on a swivel since there was so much going on everywhere! The very first orb we observed was no longer doing its strange dance just across the bay like earlier. I don’t recall it being in that area again after about the two hours into our observations. Like I said before, there was no rhyme nor reason to any of these entities’ actions. It’s like we were simply there to observe them in their natural habitat. I don’t know how else to explain it!

Brace yourself, because here again is another crazy description of some different lights that evening. Every so often, we would see one orb that was slightly orangish compared to the others. It seemed a little larger and gave me the impression that they were of a higher order amongst the many other white orbs. I don’t know why I say this but they just moved about differently. There weren’t more than three or so of these that I noticed throughout the evening. Another orby occurrence was an object that struck me as jet-like. Seriously, this thing moved more in a direct line throughout the others and seemed to have a purpose among the orb clusters. It appeared triangle-like and was a combination of bright white orb at the front or tip of the triangle and had a reddish hue on one side and a greenish hue on the other. It was not incredibly brilliant in shine like the other orbs and seemed to have a dullish or obscured brilliance to it. I noticed these things three different times later in the evening. Of course, this sounds like a description of plane or jet but I assure you that was not the case. They only travelled through the cloudy grouping that I described earlier and I never saw them exit the larger cloud mass. Again, this cloudy network was not that far in the sky and was certainly not in the region of flight patterns.

When we all finally had our fill from the experience, at about 4:00 in the morning, we decided to retire for the evening as we had a busy day head of us. My two friends retired first and I was right behind them. I secured our campsite and fire for the evening and headed to my sleeping quarters. I decided to take one last look at the sky and around us and guess what? The orbs had decided to move on and I could not see any of them like we had just 20 minutes before. This was another strange twist to that night! Off in the distance, I could faintly make out a large cluster of shiny objects seemingly headed to the west. Was this a star cluster or our group of orbs headed off somewhere? My mind was so overwhelmed that I just passed it off as another bizarre component of our evening.

I remember when I finally settled into my cozy bed in the back of my truck, I felt really weird. I felt somewhat disoriented to a point of dizzy like. I also felt like I was floating, with my truck, off the ground ever so slight. This feeling lasted for a good 15 minutes before I felt relaxed. I also recall feeling a very deep but subtle vibration that felt like an earth vibration. It was not pulsing but consistent. It was so faint and almost unnoticeable. Very odd indeed, but then again, the entire evening was outrageously odd!

I’m sure some will ask if we felt threatened or felt any fear during this. The answer is no. In fact, that was the topic at one point amongst us three if any of us felt in danger from these objects. We all concurred that we really felt neither fear nor divine emotion. Never was there any panic amongst us or divine occurrence, again, it felt as though we were just observers and nothing else. Throughout the evening, we would individually invite them to visit us. Yes, we sincerely asked these objects to reveal themselves and join us! We were far more intrigued than frightened and we were just hoping for a meaning to what we were witnessing.

I must admit, overall, the experience was incredibly divine but I just wished I had an answer of, why? Why were the three of us given this access, if you will, to something that seemed well beyond our reality? Were we chosen for the show? Did we just happen to be in the right place at the right time for a celestial gathering?

Obviously, as you could imagine, this experience has had me buzzing ever since. I’m the kind of guy that needs answers and I don’t have any solid answers. At this point, I’m just wide open to what this was truly about. I’m also a true skeptic but this defies logic according to my reality. My guard is down and I can’t possibly be skeptical towards this profound, unexplainable event.
Historically, this area was a heavily used area by Native Americans. There are endless artifacts, petroglyphs, pictographs all around this area that confirm this. Since I don’t have even a slight clue about this event, did I witness something that was related to these ancient people? These orbs struck me as very earthly but cosmic in the same respect. Almost like a conjuring from spiritual, earthly beings.

Some of you may ask, “where’s the video?” Fair question indeed! I knew what I had (smart phone) wouldn’t really portray exactly what it was we were seeing. I also was so damned spellbound that I could not take my eyes off the incredible show around us. This seemed very uncharacteristic of me because I document everything. Was I under some power that inhibited my innate impulse? My friends also did not try to video anything that night. Why? Why didn’t it occur to us to at least try to get something? This was also rather uncharacteristic of my friends that were equipped with the smartest of Samsung phones and also a quality digital camera. Was there some force affecting us that inhibited us? The night was so strange and so mystic that I wouldn’t doubt the possibility here.

The story doesn’t end here because the next evening brought us a much different, but equally fantastical experience. This evening started a lot like the night before where we had a clear sky earlier with increasing clouds later in the evening. It was this second night that my mind started thinking about the clouds the night before because there was a peculiar similarity between the two evenings. Both nights, it seemed there was a light clouding that began obscuring our clear view of the skies along with these other clouds. These other clouds were sparse but large in their size. Even the shape of the clouds struck me as peculiar. They were very shapely, with many curves and protruding edges like you would see on a large lake with bays and peninsulas. Another strange aspect of these clouds is that they were very dark and almost black. Looking back, I would describe them as ominous in their appearance. At the time I didn’t think much about them as I thought it was just a play of shadowing as the moon crested beyond the horizon heading to the other side of the world. It seemed when these clouds would show up the fun would begin.

This evening was much different because this time there were only about three different orb areas that were active. There wasn’t the massive gathering like the night before. These orbs basically stayed in their distant areas doing the very same habit throughout the night. One light in particular was by far the more entertaining.

This particular orb appeared fairly close to where it all began the night before. It was a little more to the left of our view where we saw the red and white orbs dancing the night before. It stayed in a particular track throughout the entire night going back and forth in almost a straight line. This orb travelled back and forth over an area I would put at about an 1/8 of a mile to maybe a 1/4 mile. It would flit about up and down and sometimes sideways but would stay on this chosen path. Like the lights before, it would often disappear out of sight only to reappear again later and do its funny ritualistic dance. This went on for hours!
The orb activity seemed to kickoff about midnight just like the night before after the dark clouds showed up. Freaky huh?

This same orb also seemed to have a spotlight yes, a spotlight! This was not your typical man-made spotlight as it had incredible power and would light up an area at an unbelievable size. This spotlight would light up the entire track this orb travelled that night. The spotlight would often shine here and there as if it was looking for something. Interestingly, this orb would turn this light on us, or so it appeared, but it was never bright to our eyes nor did it illuminate us. The orb just seemed a little larger and brighter when it turned towards us. It didn’t shine this spotlight all that much but when it did it was obvious!
Closer to us and just on the other side of the bay was a group camping. Two of us were certain we heard a female say, “they’re back!” when this orb flew directly above them at one point. I wanted dearly to go over and talk to them the next day but we were on a schedule that did not permit it and it was a little difficult to reach. I regret that decision immensely. At least I would have a few more witnesses to add testament to this unbelievable story!

Another curious thing the orb would do is multiply. As you watched it, it would seem to clone itself and birth other orbs the same size and shine as the original. These orbs would trail off and disappear, leaving the main one to dance with its self. A time or two that night, other orbs would show up and the two or three or more would dance back and forth like they were interacting somehow. They would eventually disappear, leaving the original one to itself again.

There were two other orb activities that night but considerably a good distance from us and the more entertaining orb. One group far across the lake near Hall’s Crossing had its own strange pattern of dance that night. There were two distinguished orb clusters. One group had a cluster of white orbs and the other cluster a mix of color orbs. These two groups appeared to hover in an area without much movement in any direction. They seemed to be on the same track as they would float up together and then back down. My impression was that they were not in any conflict that I could detect, they just seemed to play off of each other. Again, this went on for hours too.

The third orb area was just a repeat of an orb rising from a particular area, travel left to right along the same path and drop or disappear in the same area. Sometimes, this orb would appear to also clone itself similar to the before mentioned orb. This also went on for hours.

Earlier that evening and just an hour after sunset, I laid down to rest my tired back. I’m 61 and beginning to feel my age! My friends began to experience the odd happenings during my resting. There was a moment when they were in their tent when they said that a bright light overhead would illuminate their tent very brightly, shut off, and then do it again. They said this lasted about a minute or so. I was very close and awake but I didn’t notice any light such as that. They were very adamant about this so I didn’t even begin to question it. Everything was so weird and indescribable the night before, why would I even question their testimony, right?

As I was still resting, my friends decided to take a hike over to a sandy beach and lake side area about a half mile away. While out there, they said they had maybe the most profound experience out of the two nights. I wouldn’t do this story justice because this would have to come from them directly. I guess at one point they had a light shine at them, startling them somewhat because they thought they were intruding upon another camping group. Their impression was it was a pickup with two beings next to it. However, they felt very strongly that the two entities were not human. This part of the story really needs to come from them as I do not want to embellish anything here. They had said the vehicle was very near the area we were camping but I did not notice anything peculiar as I rested. It gave me goosebumps when they told me. Of course, I didn’t even begin to question their experience.

When they came back to camp, I rallied and joined them at the campfire only to hear this bizarre experience. After that is when I started looking around again and spotted the three different orb groups. I couldn’t believe that we would have to back-to-back nights of odd experiences, but the whole thing was so outrageous I figured, “why not!”

My friend did do a short recording of the “main attraction” orb and it did show the erratic movement but it did not portray the actual look of the orb. This is what I expected to see and that’s why I didn’t bother trying to record. It looked like someone shining a flashlight directly at you and moving it around. Trust me people, this was no flashlight!

I think we finally went to bed around four in the morning. I’m old and I like my sleep but I just couldn’t stop watching as the hours slipped by. It was hard to think of sleeping as you could imagine!

I’ve never been so enthralled in my life and I’ve had some incredible moments throughout my 60 plus years on this earth. Back in the summer of 2019, I experienced a UFO(s) sighting in the same general area of Lake Powell. I like to go to Lake Powell for its wonderfully dark skies and incredible star-gazing. I don’t get down there often enough! I’ve observed these UFO’s four different times now throughout the last 5 years. My UFO’s stories are a whole other story for another time to tell.

Another celestial blessing was seeing the Aurora Borealis in the desert of Utah. This experience happened very near Goblin Valley State Park. This experience can easily be explained with all the backing of earth science so it doesn’t even begin to compare to the story you are reading here. I’ve always viewed that as a gift from the Gods because of my love for the natural world. Nature is my cathedral, my church if you will.

I’m now left with the question of what I and my young friends experienced. It would be easy to be bugged into a psychosis over this because of its extreme nature, well beyond a human’s day to day reality. It tested me in a way I never imagined but I know what I was seeing, and what my friends were seeing so I accepted this new reality in front of me. I’ve never doubted the magic or mystic of this world so maybe that made it easier to assemble in my brain? It was a calm experience for the three of us; never terrified nor wholly overwhelmed. It was just a neutral feeling, I guess. It’s like we were just simple spectators to a very sacred event.

Posted 2024-08-22