From his porch in Cody, Wyoming, Jezriah Krubeck says he watched nearly two dozen glowing orbs rise from Cedar Mountain, west of town, every night from November to February. They drifted toward each other, he said, followed the ridgeline, changed direction and stopped. They didn’t show up on a satellite tracker and didn’t flash like aircraft. When they appeared, he said, he counted four or five regular planes over the mountain at once, far more than usual.

Then they stopped for months. In late September 2026, he told Cowboy State Daily, they came back.

Krubeck, who holds a doctorate in education, said he tried to rule out stars, meteors and other natural causes, and got neighbors to look too. Many saw the lights.

Richard Beckwith, Wyoming’s director for the Mutual UFO Network, reviewed Krubeck’s video. He saw several separate glowing white objects moving in different directions and ruled out aircraft without navigation lights, most drones and balloons or lanterns. He said he had no explanation, nor for the extra air traffic. A second video, from a miner in the Bighorn Mountains, showed nothing unusual beyond camera shake, Beckwith said, and may have been a distant plane.

Across the state, Sweetwater County’s sheriff’s office says drone-like objects have hovered over the Red Desert and the Jim Bridger Power Plant for 13 months. A spokesperson called them the new normal.