Torrington, WY, USA
Same as last night. Bright ball of light between 5,000-10,000 feet. It is 10 times the size of a communication satellite.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-05
- Where
- Torrington, WY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.062, -104.184 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-torrington-wy-2015-3fb422
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Torrington, WY reports filed in August 2015.
In context
- Torrington, WY shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from Wyoming in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate 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.