For more than 13 months, swarms of UFOs have been appearing over a Wyoming power plant. Yet despite them showing up for over a year, no one knows exactly what they are or why they are appearing there.
Power plants are one of the more common locations where UFOs are spotted around the world. Usually, however, the power plants in question are nuclear.
In Wyoming, these UFO swarms have been afflicting the coal-fired Red Desert and Jim Bridger Power Plant in Rock Springs. According to the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, they often appear over the power plant in coordinated formations. Sweetwater County Sheriff John Grossnickle was one of the first to witness the UFOs.
The Sheriff’s Office says the UFO hover too high to shoot down, appearing thousands of feet above the power plant. So, they haven’t been able to figure out exactly what they are, or what they are doing.
Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jason Mower reports they have reached out to Wyoming U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman for assistance with their investigation. Mower also said Hageman saw the UFO formation during a trip to the power plant with the Sheriff.
“We’ve worked with everybody. We’ve done everything we can to figure out what they are, and nobody wants to give us any answers,” Mower told the Cowboy State Daily.
Mower said when the UFOs first began appearing, numerous residents called their office to report them. Now, they have been appearing for so long that “it’s like the new normal.”
“It’s like this phenomenon that continues to happen, but it’s not causing any, you know, issues that we have to deal with — other than the presence of them,” Mower said.
Several other Wyoming sheriff’s offices have also reported UFOs
Niobrara County Sheriff Randy Starkey said UFOs appeared flying over the Lance Creek area all last winter — from late October through early March. They are gone now, but he never got any answers about them.
Six other sheriffs also told Cowboy State Daily in January that they’d either seen potential UFOs or had reports of them in their counties.
Earlier this month, State Senate Appropriations Chair Tim Salazar publicly asked Adjutant General Greg Porter of the Wyoming National Guard about UFOs. (The government now refers to them as UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena.) Porter said he didn’t believe he should discuss the topic in open testimony.
“I’m asking if you’ve had any incidents of UAPs over your airspace?” the Cowboy State Daily reported Salazar asked during a meeting at the state Capitol in Cheyenne.
“For our air space, no. I’m aware of some other ones — near some other federal facilities — that I don’t think in open testimony here I could probably say much about that,” Porter replied.