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Wyoming UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 414 UFO sighting reports in Wyoming to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (92 reports, 22.22% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (53 reports, 12.80% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (66 reports, 15.94% of total).
- 08/17/01 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 1.45% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (28 reports, 6.76% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (195 reports, 47.10% of total).
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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White circle with green light flying downward then horizontal and quickly beamed out of site.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Wyoming UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Wyoming
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Wyoming