Last updated on May 1, 2024

All Reported UFO Sightings in Wyoming

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Wyoming.

How many UFO sightings have there been in Wyoming?

  • There have been 414 officially reported UFO sightings in Wyoming from 1970 to 2023.
  • Wyoming ranks #48 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in the USA.
  • Adjusted for population size, Wyoming ranks #12 on the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings, with an average of 1.37 reports per 100,000 residents.

Wyoming Cities with the most UFO Sightings

Rank City Reported Sightings
1 Cheyenne, WY 50 UFO Reports
2 Casper, WY 37 UFO Reports
3 Laramie, WY 35 UFO Reports
4 Rock Springs, WY 18 UFO Reports
5 Gillette, WY 15 UFO Reports

Wyoming UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 414 UFO sighting reports in Wyoming to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Wyoming

These Wyoming UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

Encampment, WY

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white tic-tac shaped dot near the moon stayed still, then disappeared Two rational skeptics looked out a rolled down car window to see a still star in the sky, only it was white and tic-tac shaped/cylindrical. It was near the moon. We kept driving, only when I tried to take more photos I couldn’t see it anymore.

It possibly disappeared behind clouds or in some other way. There are photos.

12/25/23 4:46 PM

UFO Shape: cylinder

Lasted: 1-2 minutes

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Lander, WY

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Kept lighting up bright then dimming until invisible. Disappeared and reappeared, changed direction a lot and multiple appeared at once A first one came over the mountains on the horizon. It was super bright and moving very upwards fast.

Then it dimmed until it could not be seen. Around 30 seconds later it reappeared then did the same thing again. The next time it reappeared another was next to it and following it.

They were moving from one direction to another and following each other, both bright. One dimmed and then the other did too. The final time there were three and the exact events happened again, taking a little longer this time.

Everything was strangely silent for being out in the middle of the country.

12/25/23 8:40 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: around 5 minutes

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Cheyenne, WY

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Saw a light go from dim to very bright At 10:20pm MT, I was the Captain operating SWA FLT 4900 MSP-DEN, we could see a light move up in the sky at a rapid speed and go from dim to a very bright light. At one time, we could see 4 lights come and go sometimes moving in a counterclockwise position.

11/13/23 8:20 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 5 min

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Cheyenne, WY

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Fuzz ball coming from the west. Other stars , planets were sharp. Fuzz ball passed heading south east.

Just one object moving southeast. It’s like it had a cloud around it.

10/30/23 7:00 PM

UFO Shape: orb

Lasted: 5

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Riverton, WY

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White circle with green light flying downward then horizontal and quickly beamed out of site.

10/30/23 2:45 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 10 seconds

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Riverton, WY

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Fairly large yellow orb with red and blue lights around it I looked out my window and spotted this yellow orb with red and blue lights around it in the same place that my sister and I spotted another UFO back in 2005. So this caught my attention I watched it for about 30 seconds as it stayed completely stationary. Then suddenly it started moving up and down, and then very quickly moved straight across the sky to the left very quickly much much faster than an airplane could travel.

I went to get my phone, and when I returned, it was gone.

07/27/23 10:21 PM

UFO Shape: orb

Lasted: 2 min

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Vedauwoo, WY

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Low flying rectangle gliding east to west and glowing blue The object was in the southern sky and slowly gliding east to west. At first I thought it was a banner flying behind a plane, but then realized there was nothing ahead of the object pulling it. This also would have been strange since we were in an area with no real cities for miles, and it was nighttime.

It was rectangular and very long, very close to the ground and glowing blue. It looked as if there were tiny glowing rooms inside it, like it was an apartment complex or cruise ship, but these were laid out in intricate patterns. After we watched it for a few seconds it looked like it slid into a hole in the sky, gradually disappearing completely.

07/10/23 10:00 PM

UFO Shape: rectangle

Lasted: 15 seconds

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Yellowstone National Park, WY

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I snapped about 20 photos, when viewing I located this image in 1 photo only. There were 3 in my group, we didn’t see the image until later when viewing the pics.

06/22/23 2:00 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: Unknown found image

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Thermopolis, WY

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It was a long ladder, leg, two parallel lines of lights connected by other lines of light moving south east high in the sky. We were sitting and looked up to see two parallel lines of light, matching in length, connected by smaller lines of light. It was moving south east, high in the sky, like you would expect a comet.

05/14/23 9:40 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Rock Springs, WY

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Floating orb on western horizon next to sun The object was on the western Horizon above the sun. it was bright enough to see through cloud cover. It was stationary and I watched it for 3 minutes before it vanished.

I did not see it move at all it just disappeared. There are no stars it was very close to the sun in the sky.

05/06/23 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 3 minuets

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Cheyenne, WY

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Three hovering objects My friends just looking at the online depot camera as usual and we saw the objects hoving. They went to see if anything was really there, it just sat there. I looked at the web cam the next evening and there are now 3 objects hoving, one is blinking now at 11:05 pm April 29th.

04/28/23 2:15 AM

UFO Shape: egg

Lasted: Still going on

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Laramie, WY

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Almost looked like a star but actually much much closer I've been seeing objects like this almost every night for over a year. They are very bright and emit all kinds of colors. When I look at them with binoculars I see what is seen in video just with more detail.

The border of these things isn't constant. It look like there are little bolts of electricity traveling from one side to other.

04/10/23 11:00 PM

UFO Shape: changing

Lasted: 1 hour

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North Rock Springs, WY

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My fiance and Isaw moving yellow lights engaging in high speed maneuvers I'm 24, drink (but had no alcohol as of the day of or the day before sighting and report), have no military or civilian aircraft training, and I do and was smoking delta 8 (legal in my jurisdiction) this night for full disclosure. My eyesight is also poor. At around 0305, about an hour and a half before starting writing this, I went to have a late-night cigarette (as I am lifelong sufferer from insomnia) and, while watching the snow fog roll in, had my attention attracted by a bright, steady yellow light that appeared to be in the very low atmosphere, perhaps between 5-15 miles distant, moving out of the north into the south west, with steadiness.

I was watching from a trailer park where I live with my fiance close to and directly beneath White Mountain, facing east. I instantly ran to bedroom to wake my fiancé. Although she was groggy and had to put her contacts in, and did not see anything (at first), she came back to the front door after putting in her eyes (I was now waiting just inside the door as it was around 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit not accounting for the chill) and we watched them for a while.

She saw them too. I saw a yellow light move north in an arcing fashion, like it was making a half-circle in the air, and then it began to descend rapidly while still moving forward (north), before blinking out. The descent was rapid, though potentially not rapid enough to exclude UAVs as a possibility.

As I have said, I have no military experience and cannot speak to military hardware or its capabilities. Another one soon popped into being after the first one went out, then the first one came back to life, and we saw both, though they were stationary when this particular movement occurred. We watched, from the cold of the front door, for over forty-five minutes together.

The lights continued to increase and lower their elevation, though usually turned off before seeming to move. Eventually, given that I did wake her from a dead sleep, she returned to bed. But I continued watching them turn on and off, and show up in different places for the next 15 minutes, after which no activity was noticeable.

I remained a further quarter of an hour before retrieving the laptop to file this report. I have since checked on the sky several times with no sign of any further abnormal activity. The whole time, lights would blink into existence around other lights that came from nowhere, which I figured could have been stars obfuscated by the fog, until they would begin to move, sometimes before switching their lights off.

Sometimes I could swear that they were putting off red light, but it was so fleeting, I can still not be sure, especially given the fog and my eyesight, which began to progressively cloud over after a while. There were no less than two, but I suspect there were more, as sometimes I would catch glimpses of light pulsing around a central light in the sky almost exactly east of my position. I could not discern if the central light was a craft or a celestial object, but it seemed the other light(s) kept a close proximity to it, and I used this central light as reference point, while glancing askance at the lights to better view them, to detect movement.

I saw the lights moving at least four times without "turning off" first. My fiance saw at least 2 of these 4 occasions of movement, minus the first time I saw it alone and went to wake her, and another instance where she was watching with me, but could not see the lights as well as I (my eyes had almost completely adjusted by this point). If it weren't for the fact that I know we saw no fewer than two moving objects, I would say the fog was just playing tricks on us.

They moved, though. They were piloted craft, beyond a doubt. These could have been UAV's, though the speed and maneuvers were something I have yet to see a civilian drone pull off.

If it wasn't a drone, F-35, or Harrier (which I say because the lights would frequently sit still, turn out, then move, which is, in theory, not beyond the capabilities of anything I just named) then the best I can figure is that one of these lights was acting as a staging area for the other(s). I watch these skies every day. I have seen strange things in the skies, but never something strange that was also certainly, beyond a doubt, piloted or controlled by something intelligent.

I must say, the lights instantly struck me as out of place. I saw no landing lights (airport in town), no distinguishing characteristic, whatever, beyond the yellow, quickly moving, seemingly stealth-seeking lights. I saw no evidence of increased aerial activity subsequent to the sighting.

As a side note, the neighbor's dog wouldn't quit barking, but I promise you, he don't need a reason to start that racket up.

03/04/23 3:04 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 hour+

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Wheatland, WY

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WY- yes it kind of resembled a spacex satellite but it wasn't, also when we shined a flash light at it as soon as the beam hit it it just vanished.

02/12/23 7:08 PM

UFO Shape: formation

Lasted: 10 min

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Douglas, WY

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1 second of bright green light 50 mile radius minimum Driving back to shop, on the phone with significant other working outside tonight as a truck driver too and we saw it simultaneously. 1-2 seconds of a BRIGHT GREEN light lit up the sky. Confirmed visible by other truck drivers seen from a minimum of a 50 mile radius, 5-10 people at least saw it that I know of and contacted to make sure I wasn’t seeing things.

Drove around to make sure no fires. Everything looked to have power around, no outages. Just unexplained light many of us saw.

11/02/22 1:30 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 second

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Cheyenne, WY

Full Report Text:

At approximately 0327 MDT the pilot of a Delta B767 flying at 37,000ft reported seeing 3-4 white lights circling above his aircraft. The pilot reported that the lights were well above him and maneuvering in a very unusual way. Specifically, the were all flying in a large orbital pattern in the horizontal plane well above him.

There is no military use airspace in the area, and there was no known satellite activity. When the pilot was asked what he thought it could be - a satellite, other aircraft - civilian or military, he replied that it was nothing that he had ever seen before. The pilot stated that he has seen the Starlink satellite, and it was nothing like that.

The specific location of the sighting was 45 miles from the Cheyenne VOR on the 065 degree radial.

09/24/22 3:20 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 10+ minutes

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Casper, WY

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White, glowing cigar shaped object Around 6:12 a.m. I got up to shut off lights in kitchen and looked out sliding glass door , noticed a cigar shaped object over the Casper mountain range, it was a glowing cigar shape I was shocked by seeing it and decided to go wake my husband, he got up and saw it as well.

We watched it for another min or so until it was out of our sight.

09/05/22 6:12 AM

UFO Shape: cigar

Lasted: 2min.

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, WY

Full Report Text:

String of bright lights going from West to East. Seemed to end in the same spot. Observed the same lights, night before Seemed to end in the same spot.

Observed the same lights, night before at Guernsey State Park. The lights were fairly even, with some gaps in between. Reminded me of tracer shots, going in an arch across the sky but these we much further away and much higher altitude.

Tried to film with cell phone to no avail. We observed multiple aircraft during the same time, but they were emitting bright red & green navigation lights. We also saw satellites but they were much further up.

NUFORC Note: Likely Starlink Satellites.

08/22/22 9:27 PM

UFO Shape: formation

Lasted: 20 seconds

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Jeffrey City, WY

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I saw a cigar shaped object slowly moving west to east about 10° above horizon. While camping, at about 9:15 pm, I was stargazing and saw a glowing cigar-shaped object in the north, about 10° above the horizon. It took me a moment to realize what I was looking at.

Then noticed it was steadily moving from the west to east and was completely silent. The object was horizontal to land and moved in a horizontal direction. I'm a 69 yr old retired Senior Inspector with the US Marshals Service.

08/19/22 9:15 PM

UFO Shape: cigar

Lasted: 2-3 minutes

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Wheatland, WY

Full Report Text:

Took exit to stretch legs looked up and saw movement got cell phone and took video. I drive tractor trailer on Interstate 25 five nights a week from Casper Wy to Denver Co. I normally stop at mile marker 94 exit to stretch and walk around.

I looked up to enjoy the stars and saw some fast movement. I got phone and videotape the (ufo) or craft. It is still there moving around in the night sky.

It is the brightest light/star almost straight up in the night sky.

07/29/22 3:51 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 2 minutes

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Wyoming UFO Sightings By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 92 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Sphere 40 reported sightings 9.66% of all reports
Circle 39 reported sightings 9.42% of all reports
Triangle 32 reported sightings 7.73% of all reports
Other 32 reported sightings 7.73% of all reports
Fireball 25 reported sightings 6.04% of all reports
Unknown 25 reported sightings 6.04% of all reports
Formation 19 reported sightings 4.59% of all reports
Disk 16 reported sightings 3.86% of all reports
Oval 15 reported sightings 3.62% of all reports
Cylinder 10 reported sightings 2.42% of all reports
Changing 9 reported sightings 2.17% of all reports
Cigar 9 reported sightings 2.17% of all reports
Chevron 7 reported sightings 1.69% of all reports
Egg 7 reported sightings 1.69% of all reports
Flash 6 reported sightings 1.45% of all reports
Rectangle 4 reported sightings 0.97% of all reports
Diamond 4 reported sightings 0.97% of all reports
Teardrop 4 reported sightings 0.97% of all reports
Orb 2 reported sightings 0.48% of all reports
Cone 2 reported sightings 0.48% of all reports

Wyoming UFO Sightings By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
June 53 reported sightings 12.80% of all reports
August 52 reported sightings 12.56% of all reports
July 45 reported sightings 10.87% of all reports
September 41 reported sightings 9.90% of all reports
October 41 reported sightings 9.90% of all reports
April 31 reported sightings 7.49% of all reports
December 29 reported sightings 7.00% of all reports
January 25 reported sightings 6.04% of all reports
February 25 reported sightings 6.04% of all reports
November 24 reported sightings 5.80% of all reports
May 20 reported sightings 4.83% of all reports
March 16 reported sightings 3.86% of all reports

Wyoming UFO Sightings By Weekday

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.

Weekday Sightings % Of Total
Saturday 66 reported sightings 15.94% of all reports
Friday 61 reported sightings 14.73% of all reports
Monday 60 reported sightings 14.49% of all reports
Sunday 57 reported sightings 13.77% of all reports
Wednesday 56 reported sightings 13.53% of all reports
Thursday 54 reported sightings 13.04% of all reports
Tuesday 48 reported sightings 11.59% of all reports

Wyoming UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.

Date Sightings % Of Total
08/17/01 6 reported sightings 1.45% of all reports
12/09/17 3 reported sightings 0.72% of all reports
04/17/20 3 reported sightings 0.72% of all reports
09/06/02 3 reported sightings 0.72% of all reports
08/15/94 2 reported sightings 0.48% of all reports

Wyoming UFO Sightings By Time

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.

Time Of Day Hours Sightings % Of Total
Night 20:00 - 23:59 195 reported sightings 47.10% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 71 reported sightings 17.15% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 60 reported sightings 14.49% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 33 reported sightings 7.97% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 23 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 20 reported sightings 4.83% of all reports

Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wyoming

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wyoming.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2023 14 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 14 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 4 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 28 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 21 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 15 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 19 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 16 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 20 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 21 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 18 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 15 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 21 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 13 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 5 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 12 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 9 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 11 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 12 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 6 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 9 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 16 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 17 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 7 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 14 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 9 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 2 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 3 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 2 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 4 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 4 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1991
1989 3 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1989
1987 3 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1987
1985 2 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1983
1980 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1980
1978 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1978
1976 2 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1975
1973 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 1 UFO Reports Wyoming UFO Sightings in 1970

Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Wyoming

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Wyoming

City Number of Reports View Reports
Cheyenne 50 UFO Reports Cheyenne, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Casper 37 UFO Reports Casper, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Laramie 35 UFO Reports Laramie, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Rock Springs 18 UFO Reports Rock Springs, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Gillette 15 UFO Reports Gillette, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Cody 13 UFO Reports Cody, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Sheridan 13 UFO Reports Sheridan, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Riverton 12 UFO Reports Riverton, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Evanston 11 UFO Reports Evanston, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Yellowstone National Park 9 UFO Reports Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Clark 7 UFO Reports Clark, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Green River 7 UFO Reports Green River, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Powell 7 UFO Reports Powell, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Lander 7 UFO Reports Lander, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Rawlins 6 UFO Reports Rawlins, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Glenrock 5 UFO Reports Glenrock, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Jackson Hole 5 UFO Reports Jackson Hole, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Buffalo 5 UFO Reports Buffalo, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Torrington 5 UFO Reports Torrington, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Douglas 5 UFO Reports Douglas, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Dubois 5 UFO Reports Dubois, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Rock River 4 UFO Reports Rock River, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Jackson 4 UFO Reports Jackson, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Wyoming 4 UFO Reports Wyoming, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Thermopolis 4 UFO Reports Thermopolis, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Wheatland 3 UFO Reports Wheatland, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Hulett 3 UFO Reports Hulett, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Teton National Park 3 UFO Reports Teton National Park, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Pinedale 3 UFO Reports Pinedale, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Buford 3 UFO Reports Buford, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Chugwater 2 UFO Reports Chugwater, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Shoshoni 2 UFO Reports Shoshoni, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Alpine 2 UFO Reports Alpine, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Glendo 2 UFO Reports Glendo, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Worland 2 UFO Reports Worland, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Pine Haven 2 UFO Reports Pine Haven, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Medicine Bow 2 UFO Reports Medicine Bow, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Point of Rocks 2 UFO Reports Point of Rocks, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Greybull 2 UFO Reports Greybull, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Centennial 2 UFO Reports Centennial, Wyoming UFO Sightings
Fort Washakie 2 UFO Reports Fort Washakie, Wyoming UFO Sightings