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Wyoming UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 28 UFO sighting reports in Wyoming from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (6 reports, 21.43% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 21.43% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 32.14% of total).
- 04/17/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 10.71% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (15 reports, 53.57% of total).
Wyoming UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Wyoming UFO reports from 2020, 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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Round Light Object in sky A round light object moving from the northwest then stopping(note:no blinking lights.object made no sound).then start moving again.
The object stopped,stood still for several seconds then the round light object faded out at a fast speed straight up until it disappeared.
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Seven dim lights in the eastern sky were moving slowly in a northeasterly direction in a uniform fashion. My husband and I were outside with our dog. I looked into the Eastern sky and saw a bunch of uniform lights in a line moving across the sky.
I yelled at my husband to look and he said there were 7 lights. They were moving in a uniform fashion toward the north east. There was an equal amount of space between the lights.
The lights were pointed east/northeast and moving to the northeast. A very large formation of lights. They were not bright, but equal to the stars in the sky around them.
It continued to move slowly across the sky out of sight. It only took a minute, but it was not fast. It was difficult to tell how far up they were.
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Line of 10-12 lights moving in unusual linear, then angled pattern Star-light bright small shapes traveling at about small; airplane speed north aligned in a more or less east-west string moving just above the mountain tops (and behind the trees in my back yard)to the west of Laramie. The objects proceeded northward at a slight angle (so you could see multiples in a line) spanning the width of my hand at arms length. The line of objects appeared to turn slightly to the west with the pivot point at the far end.
Once the objects lined up on the eastern end object, they faded completely away. I saw a similar light show in the back country of Colorado about 15 years ago in the South Platte Valley, except it was a v-shaped alignment of similar star-bright objects.
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Seen from plane, amazing shadow of craft in clear sky that is stationary and changes shape over 2 minutes 11-30-2020 While flying Alaska flight 1468 from Seattle to Nashville, The time and state is approximate. I saw a shadow appear on the ground in an otherwise sunny sky, I looked up to see nothing but blinding sun. I grabbed my camera and took a series of photos in a very difficult lighting condition.
The photos show what I saw, good enough to amaze anyone I have shown them too. I have 8 photos. Attaching one.
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Bright lights over Sheridan evolve into unknown aircraft flying directly above our car We saw three bright lights hovering in the near distance over Wendy's in Sheridan just after it had gotten completely dark outside. We were stopped at a stoplight, watching the craft. At first we thought it was a plane, but it was just hovering - not moving at all.
Then, suddenly, it started coming straight for us at a pretty good speed, descending as it went so that by the time it was over our car it was only about a one-story house above us and we got a good look at it for a couple of seconds before it vanished. It looked like a standard hexagon, only squished down so it was flatter. It was dark green in color, with four bright lights on the underside of it.
It also seemed metallic. It made absolutely no noise whatsoever, despite how close it was to us. After it passed over the car we saw no trace of it again.
No lights, no sound - nothing. It was like it had never been there. We have evidence of this object on our dash cam, all the way up until it was rig! ht over us and we were able to see it clearly.
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Two crafts where hovering by Castle Rock, Two Silver cylinder objects were moving slowly by CastleRock, they hovered.
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dull metallic sphere stationary in the sky for approximately 10 minutes 09/20/20 Riverton WY, around 3:30 pm. Walking around outside in town limits. Looked toward the east and witnessed a dull metallic spherical shaped object, stationary in the sky.
The object had no lights on it, but reflected light from the sun. Used a light pole as reference, determined the object was not moving. Watched for approximately 10 minutes while moving to 2 different angles.
After 10 minutes the object was lost in light cloud cover.
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UFO Fires burning out uintas, seen one object shooting star like that entered atmosphere and left quickly. The other three were hovering pretty high in the atmosphere going left right and up and down. Then there were searchlights looking from the ground up in the sky, like they were looking for something in the sky.
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Cloud-seeding irregular movement object seen near F.E.Warren AFB Cheyenne WY At approximately 7:39 p.
m., Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020, my partner Marcia and I walked the newly completed asphalt loop in a new subdivision (Saddle Ridge) development in East Cheyenne, WY. I wanted to stall our walk on the North-Eastern corner to get her a better background as the sun would be dropping below the horizon and gives an incredible view.
As we walked up and down the northern stretch gathering panoramic and regular still images of the skyline, I noticed a peculiar shape that did not align naturally and drew my eye to it. After I thought I lost it behind the moving clouds, Marcia, a sheriff‘s deputy here in Laramie County, still had eyes on it and helped me reacquire it. At that point, I was able to capture it on my iPhone with some not so flattering commentary.
As we walked home, it started to move and was what I thought was something slowly crashing through the atmosphere, and we could witness breaking up into smaller pieces like the shape of salmon steak and much more brightly reflective than the more massive body which started to thin, and the wind revealed it to be a formed cloud. I decided to not waste time walking the rest of the loop and cut through the undeveloped land full of live tumbleweeds in sandals just to hurry and grab my pair of Nikon Aculon A211 10x22x50 binoculars to help determine what we were watching. I called my parents, who reside an hour north of me (Fort Laramie), and see if they could see anything or not.
They could not, so I sent her some images trying to show what we were witnessing while trying to talk through what it possibly could be. Marcia and I continued to talk with my mother on the phone and pass the binoculars back and forth as we watched this object seed clouds in little lines and change angles, descend and ascend while hovering above a wind farm and turbines we have out in the West/Southwest or eight o’clock with proper North orientation. I had purchased an adapter for the binoculars that I could also use on a telescope and spotting scope come this hunting season and allow me to attach my iPhone to and capture images by magnification.
Remembering I had it is a box from my recent move, I left the road in front of my house to quickly grab it to prove what we couldn’t describe. By the time I found the bracket adapter and made it outside, Marcia had lost it, and I swept the last known location, and I too could not locate any further trace.
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Multiple Sightings, White Stationary UFO in Mountains Above Centennial, Wyoming On August 13, 2020, my son, mother, and I were fishing at Hanging Lake above Centennial, Wyoming. We walked the short distance to the other end of the lake and started to fish. We were catching fish every cast, so very preoccupied with excitement.
My son, looked up and noticed it first (he is three years old). A plane was flying close to the object. I looked at my mom and asked, “what is that?” The plane kept moving and the object was at a dead standstill.
There were hardly any clouds in the sky, so it was not a reflection of anything. It was oval/oblong and glowing white. I was able to get pictures of it, but they don’t do it justice.
My phone battery went down to 1 percent quickly, so I was only able to capture a couple pictures. It stayed above us for about 20 minutes and then just like that, gone. We must have looked down for just a brief moment and then looked back up and it was gone.
It was larger than a plane, because the plane flew by it and it was just a bit larger than that (depending on how close to us it was compared to the plane) but to the blind eye it appeared to be bigger than a jet. It stayed put, not moving at all, for about 20 minutes and then disappeared. I posted a comment about it on social media and my phone started to blow up with other people having similar reports this week and previously.
One was a man that works for Game and Fish. He saw it on Tuesday (August 11, 2020) and at night. He said he went to go investigate what the light was over the ridge (same area I saw it), and he said that his phone wouldn’t work when he tried to take a picture, almost as if it was scrambled.
He also reported that there was a vibration on the ground below him. Another resident of Centennial wrote and said she saw the same thing, around 5pm early in the week, and that she looked up with her husband while driving and said, “wow, a UFO!” and that she was almost “so mesmerized that she couldn’t take a picture” – she’s a professional photographer, so this is really odd for her. Prior to this sighting (which is the first time I have ever witnessed something like this), I had an overwhelming feeling of joy.
Like a flood of joy just overwhelmed my body – it’s hard to describe. I have been going through an incredibly difficult time and so joy isn’t something that I have experienced full-on in a while. This feeling was immense and strong.
Not sure if its related, but I believe that it is. It looks like that was a similar sighting (recorded on video) over a ranch near there on November 6, 2019 and that was posted on LaramieLive (a local news source online). There have been several other reports from Centennial residents and it sounds like they are all in the same area, so I am finding out any way.
I did call our local airport and asked if the pilot in the plane had reported anything suspicious. They said they would get back to me. Incredible.
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Bright white cylindrical object, a mile long in size over the Bighorn mountains. At 4:10 am I went outside to see the night sky. I noticed to the Northeast 10 degrees above the Bighorn Mountain range what I thought was a comet, so I wanted to share the sight with my wife who was asleep.
I convinced her to come outside to see it before the clouds obscured the view. When we both stepped outside, I noticed it had moved slightly and found that to be very odd, so we both stepped further out to get a completely unobstructed view of it and noticed that it was becoming brighter by the second. This is when I realized that the clouds had been obscuring the view and we were about to get a real good view of it.
Within a few seconds it was as bright as a white light bulb and I quickly realized that this was NO comet but something in our atmosphere and above the clouds. As the clouds kept moving away, the bright light kept coming into full view and appeared to be a very long cylindrical light resembling a “fluorescent tube“. Based on the landmarks on the mountain range it was above, I estimated it to be about a mile long.
It was in a horizontal position pointing to the northwest on the left and Southeast on the right. We also noticed that it was moving from left to right slowly and gradually turning in a counterclockwise rotation to the Northeast. Once it was pointed to the Northeast, it continued its movement towards the Northeast until it was out of sight.
The unobstructed view lasted about seven to nine seconds. Absolutely no sound was heard coming from this object. We both discussed what we saw and neither of us could speculate what it was.
I am a pilot and work for BOEING. I know how aircraft operate and what they’re capable of. This was NOT a known craft of any sort.
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Check Turpin meadow Ranch Live cam 3:57 am thru 4:30am mst. It will only remain as part of the recorded live stream until 3:pm. Do not know how to save the footage.
Footage shows craft hovering and moving over Terrace Mtn in the Teton Wilderness.
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On July 3 2020 a friend and I were drivin g to labonte canyon by Douglas Wyoming. At 11 pm we stopped for a second. I looked up at the sky and seen something in the sky.
It was red and blue. I pointed it out to my friend and we both thought it may have been a drone. We continued driving and noticed it was following us.
A few minutes later another appeared off to the right of us. At that point I turned the truck around and sped down the road. More and more of them began appearing around us.
I turned down a back road that I know goes through some dense trees. Before we got to that area we seen one to our right drop to about 6 feet above the ground it was a diamond shape and it began changing colors fast like a hologram. When it got that close it looked like it could only be about 6 feet from point to point.
We came to a t in the road and at that time another one dropped right above the ground on our left and did the color changing thing. We watched it for a fe! w seconds and seen 2 human shaped objects walk out to it from behind a bush. I got scared and quickly started turning to the right.
While I was starting to turn a bright red light shine through the windshield from infront of us. There from where that light was coming was another human shape. I drove even faster.
The road lead us to a heavy forested area where I thought we could lose them but as soon as the road went into the trees 2 of the objects moved over the road and continued to follow us. The road lead us into glenrock where we continued into casper. We parked at the cmon inn hotel where we were staying.
When we got there we both stayed in the truck and watched them. They had pit some distance between us when we were in town but they were just sitting there flashing. We watched them for maybe an hour and a half then I wanted to see if they were going to keep following us.
I jumped on the interstate and went east. They followed us from a distance. I got off the interst! ate at the hat six ramp and headed south down hat six road.
They continued to follow us. The sun was beginning to rise when I turned onto Smith creek road. At this point there was one in front of us less than a mile away, one behind us less than a mile away and the other were on either side of us high enough to where we could barely see them.
It was a little cloudy out. The one behind us would move to where it was maybe 50 yards from us and then move back into the cloud. It did this repeatedly.
As the sun got higher the 2 that were in front and behind us stopped changing colors and shined a bright white light. Before I was able to get down the road and into the mountain they all moved into the clouds and disappeared. For about the first 30 minutes of them following us we both thought that they were drones.
But as they kept following us we both changed our minds. They followed us for hours and for over 80 miles. I don't believe drones go that distance or as high as some of them went.
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As I was going south on East Ridge Road I noticed what I thought was a stationary bright star in the sky ahead of me. After about 10 seconds the light "star" just turned off. I pulled off the road and parked to scan the sky but saw no trace of the star looking light source.
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Glowing Lime-green Orb/Sphere followed by 2 smaller white lights, stopped to hover then sped out of sight. Along the North Platte River, off of Trappers Route,on a clear night, a very bright glowing lime-green orb appeared in the sky, moving quickly above the river a short distance from where we were. It was followed by 2 smaller bright white lights.
The orb briefly stopped, hovered over the river, causing a "glow" reflection off of the water. After we both were able to focus on the green orb and lights, it quickly sped out of sight. We did not hear any sound coming from it and it was approximately 100 yards away, at the most.
We were surrounded by sagebrush and river's edge. There were no trees or nearby light sources. No roads or vehicle access near or where the orb appeared.
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Outside in a small wyoming town with little to no light pollution. My family and I see in the moonlight a somewhat transparent object in a crescent or saucer shape (maybe) fly across the sky then change direction. We waited, then it returned randomly for the next 45 minutes.
No lights on the craft, just a distortion of the stars around it. My family and I have never seen anything like that, and know how planes act at night. Low flying craft with no lights or sound, with very little visual indication unless you see it at the right time.
The 4 sightings were all at different elevations and different spots in the sky. We thought it was clouds the first time, but the other sightings reassured us of what we had seen. Fast moving, maybe visible in the sky for 10 seconds on each pass.
As there was no light, we could not capture on camera.
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Thirty-eight bright white lights headind ENE, were spotted over Riverton, Wyo, and Casper, Wyo. The 38 craft were first seen flying over Casper, Wyo. A few minutes later they were spotted 2 hours away in Riverton, Wyo.
They flew in an almost perfect line heading ENE. They were bright white lights, 38 in total.
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Sitting outside and I observed a few small solid white lights that looked like stars but they were moving across the sky There were no other color lights and no flashing or blinking. They were moving in an evenly spaced line from the south going NE. I had my boyfriend come out to see and bring the binoculars.
We watched the line go on for at least 10 minutes and there were at least 50 of them. Occasionally there would be 2 side by side or one "passing" another. There were no other aircraft over is at the time according to flight tracker app.
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Staggered line of objects in the sky over Northern Wyoming While outside tonight observed an object moving from South to north. Thought it was a satellite then realized another trailed behind it then 2 more appeared behind then at regular intervals more came from the south more or less in a line. Behind the 5th light there was a smaller light chasing it but at a different path more diagonal and dimmer than the one it trailed.
Only 2 of the 11 observed got very bright then dimmed back to a modest bright light whereas the rest didn't seem to fluctuate in brightness. They moved quite fast and steady accross the clear sky til they disappeared one by one just like they appeared from the south.
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It started approximately at 9:15 PM and lasted between 25 - 30 minutes. Orbs that were evenly spaced and traveling at the same speed as the orb in front of it. They were traveling in a single file line and had no sound nor was there any flashing lights.
The orbs were white in color and at 4 different times there was a double orb side by side but the majority were all in a single line. They were traveling from SW to NE and seemed to disappear before the horizon.
Wyoming UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 6 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Wyoming UFO Sightings From 2020 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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March | 6 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Wyoming UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Friday | 9 reported sightings | 32.14% of all reports |
Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Saturday | 4 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Wyoming UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/17/20 | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
03/25/20 | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
01/16/20 | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
12/04/20 | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
03/24/20 | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Wyoming UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 15 reported sightings | 53.57% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 6 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
All Wyoming Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Wyoming, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Wyoming
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Wyoming.