Buford, WY, USA
Huge, white lighted object seen from Buford, WY, moving at high speed and disappearing.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-18
- Where
- Buford, WY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.122, -105.305 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-buford-wy-2017-59bbee
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Buford, WY has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 19 reports from Wyoming.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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