Torrington, WY, USA
One large bright light split into two.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-01
- Where
- Torrington, WY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.062, -104.184 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-torrington-wy-2015-d78eef
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Torrington, WY in August 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Torrington, WY has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 20 reports from Wyoming.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.