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The Orbs Over Cedar Mountain, Cody, Wyoming, 25 September 2026

Cedar Mountain, west of Cody, Park County, Wyoming · 25 September 2026 · Repeated local flap · United States

A frame from the Krubeck video at eight seconds, brightened and contrast stretched so the sources register on screen; the original frame is close to black. Several unresolved white points are visible, with one strongly red source at lower left and one blue white source above centre. No wings, rotors, strobes or structure are resolvable on any of them. (Jezriah Krubeck, published by Cowboy State Daily, 26 September 2026. Frame brightened by UAP Globe for legibility.)

A Cody man watched nearly two dozen lights rise over Cedar Mountain on winter nights, and Wyoming’s MUFON director said he had no explanation for the video. Measured frame by frame, the footage argues mostly against itself.

What did witnesses see at Cedar Mountain?

Nearly two dozen glowing orbs have been reported rising over Cedar Mountain west of Cody, Wyoming. Jezriah Krubeck, who holds a doctorate in education, says he watched them from his porch on essentially every clear night from November through February, and that they returned in the last week of September 2026.

Krubeck describes the lights floating up over the mountain, moving toward one another, and tracking along the ridge line from left to right. He says he deliberately tried to disprove them before concluding they were anomalous, that he asked neighbours to look and several did see them, and that they matched no satellite tracker and carried none of the flashing lights required on aircraft. He also reports a detail that cuts in an unexpected direction: once the lights began, the number of conventional aircraft crossing that part of the sky rose sharply, from the usual few to four or five moving up and over the mountain.

A second Wyoming witness appears in the same coverage but at a different place. Casey Edwards, a gold miner and tattoo artist, was turning off the highway near Medicine Wheel in the Bighorn Mountains on the night of Wednesday 23 September 2026 when he saw a light that moved and then stopped. He counted five or six of them over about two and a half to three hours, hovering and drifting in the wind, and ruled out the agricultural and hunting drones common in the area on endurance grounds. These are two separate events roughly 150 kilometres apart, and this archive treats the recurring Cedar Mountain sightings as the case; the Medicine Wheel report is recorded here because the same analyst assessed both.

More footage and images of this sighting

The same footage at twenty seconds, brightened identically. The sources remain unresolved points; across the whole clip the brightest holds a steady peak near 210 of 255 with no fade to extinction, which is not what a satellite losing sunlight does. — The same footage at twenty seconds, brightened identically. The sources remain unresolved points; across the whole clip the brightest holds a steady peak near 210 of 255 with no fade to extinction, which is not what a satellite losing sunlight does. Jezriah Krubeck / Cowboy State Daily. Frame brightened by UAP Globe.

Mysterious lights over Cedar Mountain, the Krubeck video as published on the Cowboy State Daily YouTube channel, 26 September 2026 View source

What is the official explanation?

There is no official narrative. No federal or state agency has commented on the Cedar Mountain lights, no FAA or military statement addresses them, and no explanation has been offered by any public body.

The nearest thing to an authoritative assessment is from Richard Beckwith, Wyoming state director of the Mutual UFO Network, who reviewed both videos for Cowboy State Daily and answered by text message. He separated them. Of the Edwards footage he said it showed no novelistic movement beyond the jiggling of the camera, and that Edwards might simply have been watching a distant airplane. Of the Krubeck footage he was emphatic that it was not so easily explained, saying it clearly depicts several disparate objects, all glowing white orbs, moving in different directions, that they cannot be aircraft because they lack the navigation beacons required by FAA regulations, and that he was inclined to dismiss drones because most commercial drones carry similar lighting. Because the objects appeared to move in different directions under their own power, he also ruled out balloons and Chinese lanterns, and concluded that he had no explanation for the objects recorded in the video.

Beckwith is careful about his own base rate. He told the paper that meteors, planes, birds, balloons and drones account for the vast majority of sightings, and estimates that only five to ten per cent are never explained.

What did the witnesses think it was?

The witnesses are named, on the record, and neither is anonymous. Krubeck is a Cody resident with a doctorate who says he approached the lights trying to falsify them, and who actively recruited neighbours as corroborating observers. Edwards has held a gold claim in the Bighorns for thirteen years and volunteered that he feared sounding, in his words, like a wacko, while saying plainly that he simply wants to know what it is.

Two of Krubeck's reported details are worth separating from the rest because they are the hardest to reconcile with any single explanation. The first is that the lights stopped when he shone a hand held laser at them. The second is the surge in conventional air traffic that accompanied them. Neither is visible in the forty three seconds of footage that were published, so neither can be checked here, and both rest on his testimony alone.

Nothing in the published record establishes when the released clip was filmed, in what direction the camera was pointed, or at what time of night. Cowboy State Daily describes the two videos as recent. That gap matters more than it might appear, because almost every instrument this archive would normally reach for needs a time and a bearing.

Is the Orbs Over Cedar Mountain, Cody, Wyoming, 25 September 2026 real? The two-pass assessment

PASS ONE, HOW COULD THIS BE MUNDANE. UAP Globe downloaded the Krubeck clip from the Cowboy State Daily YouTube channel and measured it. It runs 43.16 seconds at 1080 by 1920 and 24 frames per second, published 26 September 2026. At any moment it carries roughly seven to eleven separate unresolved bright points. None shows wings, rotors, structure, or a strobe.

The first measurement contradicts the most important claim made about the footage. Detecting every source in each frame and pairing the sets between frames a quarter of a second apart shows that all of them move together by one common translation, with a residual scatter of only about 0.2 to 3 pixels once that shared motion is removed. A control that pairs the same points at random gives a residual of 485 pixels. In other words, over every interval that can be measured cleanly, the sources are not moving in different directions at all; they are a fixed pattern being swept across the frame by a handheld phone. Phase correlation confirms the camera is genuinely moving, with a mean correlation peak of 0.879 and a total pan path of 1,984 pixels that returns almost exactly to where it started. Over longer baselines the separations between tracked points do change, by an average of 52 pixels across 11.6 seconds, but the tracker can swap the identity of two points that pass near each other, so that figure is not strong enough to establish independent motion and is reported here as inconclusive rather than as evidence.

The second measurement bears on the other stated ground for excluding aircraft. Measuring the colour of every source on the unmodified frames, rather than on a brightened copy, one source is persistently and strongly red for the entire 43 seconds, with mean channel values near R 170, G 80, B 80 and a red minus blue difference ranging from plus 58 to plus 111. A second source reads blue white. A single frame produced a marginally green reading, which is one sample out of more than three hundred and is not treated here as established. A steady saturated red light is the colour aviation uses for a port navigation light and for obstruction beacons, so the flat statement that the objects lack aviation lighting is not supported by the published footage.

The sky itself was then checked. For the evening of 24 September 2026 at Cody, JPL Horizons places Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter all below the horizon; only Saturn was up, low in the east at magnitude 0.4, and the Moon was 96 per cent full in the southeast. So no planet was anywhere in the western sky over Cedar Mountain, and the planetary explanation fails. Bright stars do not. Computing the bright star field for the same place and hours, with the routine validated by checking that Polaris returns an altitude of 44.3 to 44.8 degrees against Cody's latitude of 44.53, Arcturus stood at altitude 21 degrees due west at 20:30 and 11 degrees west northwest by 21:30, setting around 22:40. Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern sky at magnitude minus 0.05 and is a distinctly orange K giant, and at those altitudes atmospheric extinction reddens it further while scintillation makes it flare. Vega, magnitude 0.03 and blue white, stood high in the west through the same window, with Alphecca, Alkaid, Rasalhague, Eltanin and Altair filling in around them. A 96 per cent Moon would wash out everything fainter, leaving roughly the handful of bright points the video actually contains, one of them red and one of them blue white.

That is a coherent prosaic reading of the published clip: a bright star field low in the west, panned by a handheld phone under a nearly full Moon. It is a consistency argument and not a solved plate, because the clip's date, time and azimuth are not published and cannot be recovered from the file, and this case says so rather than overstating it. Krubeck's own account of aircraft converging on the area also has an ordinary reading, in that Cody sits under transcontinental airways and a person who has started watching a patch of sky will notice the traffic that was always crossing it.

PASS TWO, IF REAL, WHAT IS IT. The star field reading explains the 43 seconds that were published. It does not explain the account around them. A star field does not rise out of a mountain, does not converge, does not stop when a laser is pointed at it, and is not seasonal in the way described, appearing nightly from November to February and then vanishing for months. If Krubeck's description of the behaviour is accurate, the published clip is simply not the evidence for it, and the real observation has never been released. That is the most likely shape of this case: a witness with a genuine multi month observation who submitted the least diagnostic recording of it.

The honest verdict is Disputed, not discredited and not unexplained. The footage that exists has a strong prosaic reading that the only expert to comment on it did not test, and two of his three stated grounds for excluding conventional objects do not survive measurement. The testimony that does not reduce to that reading is uncorroborated by any published imagery. What would settle it costs nothing: the date, the time and the compass bearing of any one clip, which would convert every argument above into a solved plate one way or the other.

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