Bp's like the belly heat so the uth is good but u have to control it with a thermostat so they don't get burned..
Personally its cold in my room this time of year.. So I run a uth a heat lamp with ceramic bulb (no light) and I also have a space heater to keep the room at 75 and up
UTH are easier to control and have less heat loss. UTH are radiant heat sources and they don't heat air much the objects they warm do but you can only expect a few degrees under normal conditions. Heat lamps get very hot and where ever they are mounted needs to be a place the snake cannot get as they are hot enough to cause contact burns. They however heat air more you can expect to see greater ambient temps increases with them. Heat emitters as was mentioned emit no human visible light but as snakes see heat all heat sources are visible. Not that that seems to bother them. The answer to which is best comes to your house, if it was warm and ambients are perfect (80ºF) the answer is clear UTH if it is cooler it is likely heat lamps. If it is cold both maybe needed to bring ambient air temps into an acceptable range (75 dead low and 77-85 perfect and 88 maxed)
Your enclosure, the room ambients, how it is heated, where the windows are, the size, and a thousand other variables will effect temps you get there really isn't a best over all just different. UTH are easy and lamps are more difficult but they heat differently so it is like comparing a truck to a hatch back similar but not the same really. Every heater that heats air will impact the humidity, ones that don't heat the air do not. It is likely the easiest way to to tell radiant heat types from convection.
Temps always come first and humidity second temps regulate everything humidity has a much lower total impact.
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