Wyoming Mystery Orbs

[jarlrmai]

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1wscky3/wyoming_mystery_orbs_are_back_over_cody_and_ufo/

A Cody man watched nearly two dozen glowing orbs rise over Cedar Mountain west of town every night last winter. Then they vanished for months. Now they're back, and Wyoming's Mutual UFO Network director says he has no explanation for the video.


Every night from November to February, Jezriah Krubeck could watch from his porch as nearly two dozen mysterious lights rose from Cedar Mountain west of Cody.


"Just like orbs floating up over the mountain," Krubeck said. "They would float up and move toward each other. There were quite a few that basically followed the ridge line from left to right."


Then they stopped, and he thought the mysterious phenomenon might have moved on. This week, he said, they're back.


"They would interact with each other," Krubeck said. "I don't think it was a naturally occurring phenomenon in the way that they moved. Because not only would they change directions, they would stop. I had a little laser that I'd shine on them, and they would stop."
The orbs, he said, also never matched any satellite tracker and they didn't have the flashing lights required on aircraft.

It references this story

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/0...ver-cody-and-ufo-authority-cant-explain-them/

The relevant media see to be this image (and a video covered later), originally downloaded from the news website is has a file name "UFO-Krubeck-9.25.26.avif" I converted to JPEG for forum use, original download attached as a zip.

The lights here seem to be mostly stars, easily solved by Sitrec's solver

Given a terrain match and some internet sleuthing I think this puts the viewpoint looking east from west Cody and if the day is correct from the news image as the 25/09/2026 or near by then the time seems to be around 2:45AM local

So on to the video, this is available from Youtube, I have downloaded and attached it


Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5uQ0xiqiKU4?source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcowboystatedaily.com%2F

I also stabilised it on the red beacon light and added them all to this Sitrec, which is set to where I think the video and photo are taken from.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=11433/Wyoming Orbs/20260929_142635_954b81f4d25a78d84f159bc100d83af6.js

Because the same double red beacon pole seems to be in both the video and the still image and we have a star confirmed direction for the video, there does seem to be 3 stars visible at points in the video (non moving lights) but it's not enough for the plate solver, maybe an experienced astronomer might be able to id them

It would help if we could identify the red beacon on the map to then align the video FOV with the real world I cannot see to find it and streetview from here is older.

Though this does look like Starlink and the flare zone is visible from this locationa at this time, it does seen to be in a different direction to the angle of the video

Obviously there's a lot of missing information here and if we had it it might be easily solvable, but enough to make a puzzle some members might enjoy working on.

 

[flarkey]

Though this does look like Starlink and the flare zone is visible from this locationa at this time, it does seen to be in a different direction to the angle of the video

Obviously there's a lot of missing information here and if we had it it might be easily solvable, but enough to make a puzzle some members might enjoy working on.

There's no confirmed date on the photo or video, but in the article it says:

Every night from November to February, Jezriah Krubeck could watch from his porch as nearly two dozen mysterious lights rose from Cedar Mountain west of Cody.

For dates around November the stars and the flare zone line up looking west, so its conceivable this could be a video from last year.

Matching the ridgeline in the phot with the ridgeline of Cedar Mountain seems to match for a view west:

Streetview link

 

[jarlrmai]

Sorry I meant west when I said east in my OP, doh

Recent articles say he's seeing them again, which us implying they are recent, of course that could just be some 'errors', but this thread can help determine it maybe..

Finding the red beacon pole would help with determining the FOV

 

[flarkey]

Finding the red beacon pole would help with determining the FOV

Maybe here:

linky

Google Earth puts it near these buildings, which I think are illuminated in the photo:

 

[RobertBillyBob]

I found this (but Flarkey found it faster as usual). It doesn't look like there is much more around that could match but the pictures are from 2024.

 

[jarlrmai]

yeah perhaps this means the viewing position I found is not quite correct.. The hills behind don't quite match and the angle between buildings and tower is not right, unless there are newer buildings on some of the new lots

 

[jarlrmai]

If you move the camera up the road a bit the hills and the tower start to match, but the buildings are still a little out

But the foreground starts to match the river valley patterning better

And the stars match for the time at 2:40 25/9/26

So the truth is probably somewhere in that area

 

[jarlrmai]

Tower is around 55 metres, the light position is unclear, but the beacon will be pretty much at the top.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

I found a frame in which there are a minimum number of satellites.

High confidence. This is the constellation Aquila. Pretty much the same part of the sky as in this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pa...triangles-in-the-sky-stars.13652/#post-323249

Somewhere in the neighborhood of midnight. Probably after midnight. Western sky.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

 

[Ann K]

If the witness saw these things "every night last winter", why has nobody else reported seeing them? Surely he would have told others to watch the sky at the proper time, wouldn't he? His whole backstory sounds fishy.

 

[flarkey]

If the witness saw these things "every night last winter", why has nobody else reported seeing them? Surely he would have told others to watch the sky at the proper time, wouldn't he? His whole backstory sounds fishy.

People haven't reported seeing them because the vast majority of people don't look up at the night sky or notice what's happening there. There is another section of the population who'll see the lights and just assume 'plane', and another section who'll think 'satellite'. There's only a very small part of the population who'll see something they can't explain and be bothered to either 1) work out what it is or 2) officially report it to police or UFO sighting groups.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

If the witness saw these things "every night last winter", why has nobody else reported seeing them? Surely he would have told others to watch the sky at the proper time, wouldn't he? His whole backstory sounds fishy.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/0...ver-cody-and-ufo-authority-cant-explain-them/

Krubeck said he wasn't the only one. When he started seeing the orbs, he asked his friends in the neighborhood to take a look out their windows, too.

Many saw them, he said, but nobody quite shared his curiosity.

"I wanted to have as many people see it as I could, just to verify," Krubeck said. "I was always kind of shocked. They had the initial fascination, but then they're like, 'Oh, OK, whatever.' I think it's just the way we've been so desensitized, it just wasn't a big deal."

The usual pattern. There are witnesses/believers and skeptics who will investigate. Put the two groups together and they represent about 0.02 percent of the general population. Most people aren't interested.

Krubeck is what I call a "superspreader." As in this post: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/co...orted-drone-activity.14455/page-8#post-353684

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Another guy in this same story is reporting a classic ordinary stars in the sky sighting. They hover but they kind of waver around (saccadic eye movements). They follow him as he's driving (parallax). The search for a logical explanation (every outlandish explanation the witness can think of except the obvious one... they're stars). They can't be stars because he's a solid citizen who has lived under the stars all his life (except he's never looked at them... until now; and doesn't recognize them because he's never seen anything like them before).

Krubeck isn't the only one looking up. On Wednesday night, Casey Edwards, a gold miner and tattoo artist, had just turned off the highway near Medicine Wheel in the Bighorn Mountains when he spotted a single light ahead of him that moved, then stopped dead.

"I'm like, 'All right, that's just weird,'" Edwards said. "I started videotaping it, and then I could see a couple other ones. There were like four other ones."

When he started driving again, the mysterious light did not disappear into the rearview mirror.

"It almost, like, followed me down the road," Edwards said. "Once I got into camp over there, I counted five or six of them in the air. They were just hovering, and you could see them kind of dance back and forth a little bit as they were trying to stay stationary and the wind was moving them around."

Like Krubeck, Edwards said he looked for the logical explanations first. He thought they could be drones ranchers use to monitor cattle. Archery season had also just started, and he thought maybe they could be drones from hunters.
But as the night went on, Edwards said the lights didn't behave like typical drones.



"Small drones, they got maybe a 30-minute flight time," Edwards said. "These things were up there for two-and-a-half, almost three hours."

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

The "Expert" who can't explain them (obvious satellite flares)... Wyoming's Mutual UFO Network director... is an old friend; Richard Beckwith. He's the guy who personally videoed an unexplainable and intriguing UFO. A campfire on a hill.

Remember this thread? https://www.metabunk.org/threads/wyoming-ufo.13386/#post-312568

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

That case wasn't a total bust. Remember these?

 

[jdog]

Reminiscent of the Sweetwater County - Jim Bridger Power Plant - Drone Reports thread about the same paper's December 2025 story on Mystery Drones, Or Maybe UFOs, Over Sweetwater County Are 'The New Normal' where "no one" was providing answers, but no witness provided images or video or looked to see whether the power plant was near an interstate flight path.

 

[Mick West]

If you move the camera up the road a bit the hills and the tower start to match, but the buildings are still a little out

But the foreground starts to match the river valley patterning better

And the stars match for the time at 2:40 25/9/26

So the truth is probably somewhere in that area

View attachment 93359

You can add point lights to Sitrec now, just right click and "Add 3D Object" or "Create Track with Object", and chose Model/Point Light

 

[flarkey]

The Cody lights fans have reached cinematic levels in their AI recreations.


Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZhugXQmNsNE?si=wcQqU2H8Kj4oJdi9



Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/3L-13JpPZx8?si=h3_52W6AgqMw82UG

 

[flarkey]

The original article says...

Every night from November to February, Jezriah Krubeck could watch from his porch as nearly two dozen mysterious lights rose from Cedar Mountain west of Cody.

"Just like orbs floating up over the mountain," Krubeck said. "They would float up and move toward each other. There were quite a few that basically followed the ridge line from left to right."

Then they stopped, and he thought the mysterious phenomenon might have moved on. This week, he said, they're back.

"Within the last two or three nights, I'm starting to see them again," Krubeck said.

This is entirely in keeping with the seasonal nature of Starlink Flares - we can recreate the effect of the seasons in sitrec.

The band around the earth shows where flares are visible in the direction of the sun (which of course has set and is over the horizon. The band moves west as the Earth rotates. For Cody, Wyoming, in winter the starlink flares would be visible in the west after sunset, and then again in the east before dawn.

As spring approaches the flare band starts to move south and starlink flares viewed from Cody would then appear later in the day and the western and eastern flaring regions will move towards the north, however the flares will be noticably less visible towards the north because of the lack of satellites in orbit at polar latitudes.

But by May the flare band has move so far south that repeating flares wont be visible at all from Cody. , Yes, there would be the occasional satellite in polar orbit that flares, but these would be at a much less noticeable rate than the winter flares.

That is until late august when the band will have moved back north as autumn approaches.

And by late september we are back to evening flares in the west, morning flares in the east.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

EDITED

If the video in question is from late September, my estimate would be that the local time was 2:00 a.m. plus or minus one hour.
MDT, UTC−6


Is he right or wrong about this?

The orbs, he said, also never matched any satellite tracker.

There's no claim in the article or in the YT video description that this video was taken in late September 2026. The YT video was uploaded 4 days ago. But, the description is blank. The title is...

Mysterious lights over Cedar Mountain (Jezriah Krubeck Video)

For each day we move the calendar ahead, the stars would rise and set roughly four minutes earlier. The stars would rise and set roughly 120 minutes earlier for each month.


On October 25 - 26 (instead of September 25) the local time in this video, according to the altitude above the horizon of the stars in the constellation Aquila, would be roughly 11:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. ( 05:00–07:00, October 26 UTC)

Now we have to allow for the switch from daylight saving time to standard time.

November 25: 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. MST (03:00 - 05:00, November 26 UTC)
December 25: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. MST (01:00 - 03:00, December 26 UTC)


I have to suspect that this video was not taken recently. It's a video from last year.

 

[jarlrmai]

If the video in question is from late September, the local time would be shortly after midnight. Is he right or wrong about this?

Midnight which time zone?

With a late Sept date (25/Sept/26) If I leave the camera in the place where the still photo is taken and line up the mast lights to the stabilised video and the tri star id matches (Altair, Tarazed and Alshain) then the time is seemingly around 08:39 UTC / 01:39 MST.

This then puts the FOV not in the Starlink flare zone, but there are sats there (as there always are) and the speed and movement matches the general speed of them

 

[flarkey]

Is he right or wrong about this?

The orbs, he said, also never matched any satellite tracker.

It depends which ones he checked and what the settings were. Satellite trackers tend to show only those satellites that are illuminated by the sun, and visible to the naked eye, so at a magnitude greater than around 3. When you condider the starlink satellites being lit by the sun and visible by diffuse reflection that low to the horizon and almost 1,500km away their magnitude will be much less than 3, and therefore are probably not visible. However, starlink flares are a specular reflection - ie a glint of a shiny surface and will appear much brighter than the diffuse view.

Most satellite trackers dont consider this in their visibilty calculations, although apps such as Sitrec, Resolvesky.com and SatArg.com now do. For ease of use I'd recommend the Stellarium app, it has a slider setting that can show all satellites whether visible or not. It seems very accurate when looking at Starlink flares in real time.


Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/Pwlon2PWAOI?si=U5rTaQYTQKqLnPtX

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

I've edited the post.

I suspect that this video is from last year.

 

[flarkey]

I've edited the post.

I suspect that this video is from last year.

Like I said in post #2

 

[jarlrmai]

October 25th 2026 puts the time at ~06:40 UTC but it is also not even close to being in the flare zone or direction.

There are always Starlink sats in the direction you look, but they are not always visible to the naked eye

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Bottom line.

The video shows obvious satellite flares in the constellation Aquila.

If this video is from November or December of 2025... Wouldn't this be in the sweet spot for satellite flare season in the constellation Aquila?

If so, this would be nonsense...

The orbs, he said, also never matched any satellite tracker.

 

[jarlrmai]

Play with Sitrec you are looking for a night where both the flare zone and the stars are visible from the location

I wonder if goal seek is something on the roadmap for Sitrec...

 

[flarkey]

I've found the NUFORC report for this sighting.

https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=194754

NUFORC UFO Sighting 194754
Occurred: 2025-12-14 08:45 Local
Reported: 2025-12-15 08:05 Pacific
Duration: over an hour
No of observers: 1

Location: Cody, WY, USA

Shape: Orb
Color: white, red and blue
Estimated Size: hard to say
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: west
Angle of Elevation: 45
Heading: erratic and no uniform
Closest Distance: 5-10 miles
Estimated Speed: they moved very slow
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Color

These orbs would rise from behind Rattlesnake mountain, move upward, change directions fade and reappear.

The orbs seemed to be focused around a large central light that slowly moved north. The orbs would rise from the mountain top or perhaps behind it roughly 45-50 degrees above the horizon in the western sky. They would climb, switch directions and colors often pausing in line formations and triangles.

The photos attached to the sighting record are identical to the ones in the news article.

And for a date time of "2025-12-14 08:45 Local" this is the western sky when viewed from Cody Wyoming .... directly towards Aquila.

And possibly this one too: https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=194812 The video attachement there shows the red-flashing beacon on the antenna.

 

[jarlrmai]

That photo is also in the news article, tucked away at the bottom

 

[jarlrmai]

Since when could you not download from NUFORC grr

 

[jarlrmai]

Since when could you not download from NUFORC grr

I worked out how to get them I think they are demuxed from the audio though

 

[jarlrmai]

This sign is visible at one point during one of the videos in https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=194754

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/0...ver-cody-and-ufo-authority-cant-explain-them/

Every night from November to February, Jezriah Krubeck could watch from his porch as nearly two dozen mysterious lights rose from Cedar Mountain west of Cody.

NUFORC Reports

These orbs would rise from behind Rattlesnake mountain,

Location details: Again coming from behind Rattlesnake Mountain

The article says the Cedar Mountain, both reports say Rattlesnake.

Where they are according to Google Maps

The pin for Rattlesnake Mountain is up north but the far southern part of that mountain is just across the Highway.

State Highway 14 (technically U.S. Route 14/16/20, known as the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway) runs west from Cody, Wyoming, directly along the North Fork of the Shoshone River toward the East Entrance of Yellowstone National Park

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Cedar Mountain on our left, Rattlesnake Mountain on our right. The witness camera location is somewhere east of here.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5128001,-109.1317235,3a,75y,239.62h,97.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1si2DzQ4a9bxpxs1m0FA6g7A!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.clients6.google.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=-7.626012155519348&panoid=i2DzQ4a9bxpxs1m0FA6g7A&yaw=239.6163498387326!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

View attachment 93386

This sign is visible at one point during one of the videos in https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=194754

I think that says "Lane Dr."

This might be close.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lane+Dr,+Cody,+WY+82414/@44.5276417,-109.0697592,3a,26.2y,218.59h,82.85t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sT7kC7LK-o3V6hpDS-iLYSQ!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.clients6.google.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=7.15240076696935&panoid=T7kC7LK-o3V6hpDS-iLYSQ&yaw=218.59037603092946!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x534c1ed986d28b9d:0xcbad3c9c0a34d512!8m2!3d44.5276276!4d-109.0708697!16s/g/1tfs0r2j?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

I can't get the right angle, because of a lack of coverage on Lane Dr. but I think this might be the right general area. Still checking.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

No. I've lost confidence in that. Lane Drive is a west/east road, but the camera would be looking west. The sign would have to be for a north/south road.

 

[flarkey]

No. I've lost confidence in that. Lane Drive is a west/east road, but the camera would be looking west. The sign would have to be for a north/south road.

I thought it said Lane 40. There's a Lane 40 a few miles east of Cody but the signs don't match.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MiYmdzsc7KCAdnSA6

this is a Lane Drive sign.

 

[jarlrmai]

Attached are the videos downloaded from the NUFORC reports

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

What seems certain is that the videos in NUFORC UFO Sighting 194754 and NUFORC UFO Sighting 194812 were not taken in the same area as the one identified as:

Mysterious lights over Cedar Mountain (Jezriah Krubeck Video)

Is there any reason to think that Krubeck filed these NUFORC sightings? Or were other people filing reports, and this is evidence that there was a local UFO flap last winter?