Light over Laramie, WY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three pinpoints of light flying in unison, then making extremely fast erratic movements, before flying in unison again.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2001-04-22 → 2001-05-09
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April 10, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Laramie, WY
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. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
July 16, 2022 · 12:57 PM · SPHERE
Laramie, WY
Bright object the evening of the 15th of July. Looked like a balloon through binoculars but was totally stationary above the cloud layers. Saw it again the 16th during the day. I’m a commercial pilot and cannot explain why it is above the cloud layers and is absolutely stationary and high altitude. It continued to reflect sunlight well after our sunset. No notams are filed for anything related to a stationary or tethered balloon. Called the Cheyenne Wyoming NWS and they had no relative information but told me they did not launch balloons, just the Riverton Wy NWS. It isn’t moving regardless and is very high unknown to the FAA from the information I can see.
August 22, 2021 · 7:42 PM · CIGAR
Laramie, WY
We were on our way home when it looked like a bright star in the sky facing south but when it changed we relized it was a reflection on a solid white surface of somthing moving very fast in the sky we recorded and followed it until it became much faster and vanished a few days later we had seem the same thing on the exact same path as the one before unfortunately we did not have a camera at the time.
December 4, 2020 · 5:46 PM · FORMATION
Laramie, WY
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.
December 3, 2020 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Laramie, WY
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.
March 24, 2020 · 9:13 PM · TRIANGLE
Laramie, WY
My girlfriend and I were standing outaide when she pointed to the little dipper and asked a few questions about it, literally as she pointed I spotted three circles arranged in a triangle around a fourth center circle. Looked exactly like a slow rotating fidget spinner, it had green yellow lights and the rings were not fully lit, just the outline of the circles. Spotted on the horizon and it came straight over us very quickly, I would estimate the height between 5000-7000 feet, And even at that distance it was still fairly large in the sky. No noise. Dead silent. Faster than anything ive ever seen. My girlfriend saw it with my start to finish. It disappeared super fast like it was accelerating and by the time it was overhead it was going nearly too fast to see. Came from due southand was northbound directly over Laramie.