Lehi, Utah, resident Andrew Smith claims that his is responsible for all the recent UFO sightings over Utah.
The artist claims to have been experimenting with helium and some LED lights and wanted to create a UFO like art piece. When the local media got wind of the UFO reports, Smith wanted to repeat his experiment and see it on national television. What he claims to be his art experiment, turns out to be a hoax. If you can take his word for it.

It would be nice to see how he actually pulled this off. For all we know, he could be lying about his involvement in this recent rash of UFO sightings.

So maybe there weren’t UFOs floating over Utah, maybe the most reasonable explanation is that people get bored and when they do, “art” is created (or hoaxes).

Full source: ABC 4

Lehi, Utah (ABC 4 News)-A Lehi man is claiming responsibility for a flying saucer, his flying saucer of sorts. “It was just for fun, it wasn’t meant to be a hoax, and it just turned into one” Artist Andrew Smith claims that the widely speculated Utah County strange lights or rather outer space sightings have been from him. “So you’re claiming responsibility for being the alien from outer space,” ABC4 asked Smith to which he replied, yes, unfortunately yes.”

Smith says he experiments with art all the time from machines, water, to lights and now apparently flares. The Lehi man won’t say exactly how he gets those strange lights up in the sky but he admits he uses helium, flares along with some other sorts of apparatuses,” Let’s just say I use helium and it’s not Chinese lanterns up there nor planes with LED lights.”

The artist says he was just experimenting and when he saw the news reports, he decided to do it again. He showed ABC4 his video of the latest event, and says there’s a reason why he’s coming forward,” I don’t want it to spiral out of control and turn into something more than it needs to be so I thought I’d come forward now. It was just a little fun,” he admits and adds the reason why he won’t tell us exactly how he did it is because he likes, “a little skepticism and mystery.”

And Smith says he realizes many won’t believe him, and will say he’s just taking credit but the Lehi father tells us to trust him because the only alien is him.