Casper, WY, USA
On the paper route two cylinder shaped craft with brights lights in the center, preformed sparatic movements in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1650s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-30
- Where
- Casper, WY, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 25-30 min
- Geo
- 42.867, -106.313 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-casper-wy-2004-e0ca6b
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
- Casper, WY shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Wyoming in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
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.