Buford, WY, USA
Heading westbound on I-25, light seen moving at speed, disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-02-18
- Where
- Buford, WY, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.122, -105.305 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-buford-wy-2017-9d4573
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Buford, WY in the UFOMYST archive.
- Wyoming logged 19 sightings in 2017.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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