GALLERY: UFO sightings reported across Mountain West region

UTAH (KUTV) — Reports of UFO sightings were popping up across the Mountain West region between Tuesday and Thursday.

Many residents of Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and their neighboring states expressed confusion over the two beams of light that have become exceptionally visible in the night sky recently. As a result, witnesses have been trying to explain the unexplainable.

One after another, guesses as to what those light beams were began to surface, one term proving to be widespread among reports: UFO.

Though the situation was largely speculated as an extraterrestrial visit, science revealed it to be more astronomical.

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According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jupiter and Venus aligned in a rare conjunction on the night of March 1, where Venus began passing Jupiter as both planets were making their way around the sun.

NASA officials stated that this annual conjunction marked the point in which Venus and Jupiter were nearest to each other, which explains why they appear to be in such close proximity.

As the planets continue to orbit, they will eventually begin to drift and separate.