And welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about UFO drones over power
plants. That's correct, UFO drones over
power plants. In particular, we're talking
about these UFO drones being reported over the Jim Bridger
plant. They're in Sweetwater, Wyoming.
Now. This is really something else.
This is a big old coal plant, produces a lot of energy.
Take a look at that. Just a second, but I found this
article over at Cowboy State Daily.
It says mystery drones or maybe UFOs over Sweetwater County are
the new normal. Strange flying objects over
Sweetwater County's Red Desert and Jim Bridger Power Plant are
so common now they're the new normal, the Sheriff's Office
says, but no one is giving any answers about what they are.
This article is written by Claire McFarland, dated December
15th, 2025. It's got some cool pictures
here. A real scenic area, kind of this
high desert area, you know, the typical kind of red rock, sand
formations and out in the middle of nowhere you have this giant
coal plant. Strange flying objects are still
congregating high over Sweetwater County's Red Desert
and Jim Bridger Power Plant, the Sheriff's Office says.
Sweetwater County Sheriff John Grossnickel saw the drone like
flying objects with his own eyes as recently as Saturday night,
his spokesman Jason Mauer told Cowboy State Daily on Monday.
That marks 13 months of lighted, drone like objects congregating
often in coordinated formations over the red desert and power
plant, Mauer said, adding that they're too high to shoot down
from ground level. We've worked with everybody, he
said. We've done everything we can to
figure out what they are, and nobody wants to give us any
answers. Mauer said the sheriff took
Wyoming U.S. House Representative Harriet
Hagman out to see the objects, and she watched them.
Hagerman's office did not respond to an e-mail request for
confirmation and comment by publication.
The phenomena are so pervasive and any hope of addressing them
so remote that people have stopped reporting them to the
Sheriff's Office, said Mauer. He uses the terms of drone and
identifying flying object interchangeably, noting that the
objects are thousands of feet above the earth.
They move like drones, but are fundamentally still a mystery.
It's like the new normal, Mauer said.
The objects have. The objects haven't done any
harm today, he added. It's like this phenomena 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,
Mauer said. If the objects pose an imminent
harm at some point, rest assured we'll certainly act accordingly,
he said. But for now, with no answers or
hope of getting answers, Mauer said sheriff's personnel are
focusing on daily public danger and crime situations that they
have the ability to address. And it says state Senate
Appropriations Chair Tim Salazar, Republican Riverton, on
Friday asked the leader of the Wyoming National Guard about
Uaps or identified anomalous phenomena during the agency's
discussion of its nonexistent drone combat budget.
UAP is the new government acronym for UFO.
Yeah. They like to keep changing
things up, don't they? Wyoming Agent General Greg
Porter said he didn't think he could discuss that in open
testimony. Well, I guess at least he's
recognizing the fact that maybe something's going on there
during the drone talk. Porter said the Guard doesn't
have and isn't asking for drone interdiction equipment in its
budget right now, though the state passed a law this year
allowing the governor to deploy deploy the Guard against drones
over critical infrastructure. Anything the Wyoming National
Guard may acquire now would likely be obsolete and 12 to 14
months, added Porter. Well, I mean really, how would
you know that Gross Nichols office was among the most
outspoken on the issue of mystery drones this past winter.
But the southwestern Wyoming sheriff wasn't alone.
The Broward County Sheriff, Randy Starkey, said he and
others in his community watch mystery drones flying over the
Lance Creek area all last winter, from late October
through early March. Starkey told Cowboy State Daily
on Friday that with no sighting since March in his county, he's
just glad they're gone. But he never received answers on
their origin, he said. Six more sheriff's told Cowboy
State Daily in January that they'd either seen potential
mystery drones or had reports of them in their counties as of
Friday. Many of those sheriffs said they
had sightings since about late January.
Starkey's was the first Wyoming sheriff to make headlines last
December about his county's strange flying objects
manifestations. His interview coincided with the
nationwide fervor over pervasive, frequent nighttime
drone sightings over the state of New Jersey that crashed news
outlets throughout that month. The mystery still hasn't left
the news cycle. 8 days after his inauguration, President Donald
Trump yielded a truce explanation, saying the drones
were authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration and did
not pose a national security threat.
Yeah, I have to tell you, I don't really believe that a
private company at a high-powered Army conference
took responsibility for setting off last year's UFO pandemonium
and New Jersey, the New York Post reported in October.
News story that quoted an anonymous source.
Well, wouldn't we like to know who that company was?
As of December 7th, USA TODAY was reporting a few major
explanations for the objects, which chalk him up to a
combination of research drones, other night skylights and
planes, and a culmination of confirmation bias among the
thousands of tipsters. That's what you call
generalizing and just trying to pace things over pretty much.
That's some really, really shoddy reporting right there.
But strange flying objects are not a shut case as far as
Congress is concerned. The House Oversight Committee
hosted a September 9th meeting on protecting whistleblowers who
report UAP sightings. In 2023, Congress heard what CBS
News called a stunning testimony of pilots UAP sightings.
Yeah, it seems like these things just don't want to quit showing
up. Now I did do a little researcher
on ChatGPT just to get an idea if there's something special
about this particular power plant.
And it says here's an overview of Sweetwater counties Red
desert and the Jim Bridger power plant.
Like I said, really beautiful desert scenic environment there.
It says the Red Desert is a vast high altitude desert and
sagebrush step in South Central Wyoming, covering about 9320
square miles. It includes key natural features
like the Great Divide Basin, an area with no surface water
outflow, and the Kilpacker and Sand dunes, one of the largest
active dune systems in the US. The Red Desert supports 350 plus
wildlife species and more than 1000 plant species adapted to
air conditions. It is home to the largest
migratory pronghorn herd and the lower 48 States and a
significant desert elk population.
Seasonal ponds from the snowmelt attract water birds like Swans,
plovers and ducks. And it says it's been inhabited
by Native Americans. Go back to 11,000 years.
The land was destroyed. They crossed by the Oregon,
California and Mormon Pioneer Trail, and today Interstate 80
bisects it. Much of the Red Desert is public
land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and it's open
to energy development. The area is rich in oil, natural
gas, coal and uranium. Uranium that's interesting
making resource extraction a major land use driver with
ecological impacts. And it says as far as this
plant. Now I did read where they were
supposed to convert this over to gas in 2023, but it looks like a
still burning coal. It says the Jim Bridger Power
plant is a large coal-fired electricity generating station
near a point of rocks. The Sweetwater County operated
by Pacific Corp. It's one of the largest coal
plants in the western United States with a full capacity of
2000 megawatts from 4 units dating back from the 1970's.
The plant uses subdivious coal primarily and some natural gas.
Jim Bridger generates significant power for the West,
and it's often ranked high among US coal plants in annual
generation. It uses water from the Green
River via a long pipeline system to meet its operational needs.
So this is, you know, obviously this is a key asset to produce
energy for the western United States. 2000 megawatts, a lot of
the juice. I mean, could these things be
looking, I mean, are they are they using these power plants as
as a way to, you know, somehow siphon off electricity?
Or I mean, could this even be a bad actress trying to scope out
the area to see if they were going to do something to damage
our infrastructure? Would this be a target?
It seems to me that we would want to address an issue of
drones flying over one of these key industry producing assets
rather than to just pretend like they're not there and attempt to
debunk them. But yeah, that is really weird.
Now this phenomena seems to be going all over on this red
District area. I found this.
It looks like A blog post. I don't know.
It says US subjects.com. I'm not seeing the author, but
it says 7 Wyoming sheriff's seeing mystery drones still have
no answers. It's dated November 9th, 2025.
Law enforcement officials in Wyoming are documenting a surge
of unidentified aerial phenomena that resembles coordinated drone
flights, yet neither state nor federal agencies have been able
to pinpoint their origin since early December.
The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office has logged 10 confirmed
sightings, most of them after darkin described grid like
formations, straight line patterns and spoke like
formations with multiple drones branching off from one large
central drone. Sheriff's spokesman Jason Hower
said employees have observed the objects first hand and some
witnesses have provided video evidence, but the footage has
not yet yielded any identifying markings or control signals.
Now this is the kind of thing that we heard here a couple
years ago when these things were going over the nuclear power
plant Southwest. This grid patterns, it's like
they're mapping something goes on down.
It says the mystery extends beyond Sweetwater.
Sutlock County Sheriff Casey Lehrer reported a multiple
recount. Multiple encounters begin
beginning on January 1st, ranging from pairs of devices to
clusters of 10 to 12, moving and coordinated patterns over the
country's oil and gas Mesa. Lehrer noted the two accounts
have very large drones the size of a Volkswagen vehicle, with
several smaller drones flying in a grid around that singular
drone. This doesn't sound like somebody
who's just doing this for a hobby.
Law enforcement agents have corroborated these reports, and
the Sheriff's Office has dispatched nighttime search
teams, forwarding any video to the Wyoming Office of Homeland
Security's new tip porthole drone.yo.gov.
Despite outreach to every energy operator in the region, no
company has claimed responsibility for the flights.
Why would they be doing it? The timing of the reports
coincides with heightened national attention to similar
sightings. In late December, President
Donald Trump publicly declared that mysterious drones observed
over New Jersey or not from enemy sources, adding that the
Federal Aviation had authorized the operations.
Yeah, I'd like to see the paperwork on that.
The president's spokeswoman reiterated the claim on January
28th, but the statement offered no technical details.
Wyoming officials argue that the New Jersey clarification does
little to address the distinct pattern of activity occurring
across their own counties, especially over critical
infrastructure such as the Jim Bridger power plant and the dry
forex station coal-fired plant north of Gillette.
State and federal partners remain engaged, though no
conclusive explanation has emerged.
Mauer emphasized that we remain in close communications with our
state and federal partners, but we still don't have a conclusive
explanation for these flights. The lack of a clear source has
prompt speculation within the broader UAP community, where the
term drone is sometimes used as a placeholder for the objects
that exhibit flight characteristics beyond known
commercial or military platform. However, law enforcement
officials caution against jumping to conclusions, noting
that the observed drones are silent, operate at low altitude
and display coordinated behavior that is atypical for hobbyist
aircraft. Well, I'm really pleased to see
that we have at least some of these law enforcement officers
coming out and saying, hey, let's hold on a minute.
We're calling these things drones, and we don't actually
know what they are. And you know, if we don't know
what they are then and they're flying, I guess the the correct
term would be UFO, unidentified flying object.
As the investigations continue, Wyoming sheriffs are urging the
public to report any additional observations while maintaining A
measured tone. Quote, my impression is it's a
far wider issue here in Wyoming, and it has been pretty much this
entire time, Layer said, underscoring the need for
systematic data collection. The ongoing inquires intersect
with a national push for greater transparency on aerial
anomalies, as the Department of Defense Unidentified Aerial
Phenomenal Task Force and the Federal Aviation Administration
work to differentiate legitimate drone activity from potential
security threats. To me, that's a false
assumption. I don't think these guys are
working to do anything to let us know what's going on.
Until definitive evidence surfaces, the mystery drones
over Wyoming's open skies remain an unresolved puzzle, prompting
both local authorities and the federal government to keep a
vigilant watch. Well, I think that the local
authorities do seem to be pretty vigilant here.
But as far as the government's going, you know, the wider
federal government, at least I'm not seeing that.
I want to finish up this last short article here from
themissilean.com. It says missilean.com.
It's like a little news website out there in Wyoming.
Declassified reports exposed UF OS over Wyoming Written by
Jeremy Fugelberg, Casper, Star Tribune.
This is dated March 3rd, 2016, so almost 10 years ago.
Just go show this stuff's been going on, and they're talking
about reports here from a lot further back than that.
Now it begins. It says Casper, WY, a
Thermopolis housewife, saw one. A man poaching deer was certain
he saw one. So did an Air Force pilot near
Rock Springs. At the height of the flying
saucer craze in the 1950s, Wyomingites saw their fair share
of UFOs and dutifully reported them to the authorities.
But, well, most of the initial handful of sightings in those
years were easy to explain away. A few reports in the Cowboy
State still remain unexplained. We know this because of
declassified files from the US Air Force's long shuttered.
Project Blue Book is programmed to collect UFO reports from
across the country. UFO enthusiast John Greenwald
recently placed his collection of two decades of sightings,
those from 1950s and 1960s, in a searchable format on his
website, The Black Vault. Big thank you to John Greenwald
for doing that. Below it says find a few choice
white omy sightings and non sightings of UFOs.
First one says 2 objects. Location is 60 miles east of
Rock Springs. Date December 29th, 1953, time
9:26 PM. Captain David Porter aboard AC47
military aircraft spotted 2 objects in formation about four
miles apart and watch them for 7 minutes.
They changed color from red to white, like it might be a heated
metal or also like a blinking light.
Their speeds were estimated at 1500 to 2000 mph.
One disappeared heading north, the other one straight up.
AB47 bomber was in the vicinity but was there an hour later.
Conclusion Insufficient data for evaluation.
It says intense noise. Location is 6 miles West of
Cheyenne. Date October 16th, 1955.
This one happened at 8 PMA. Civilian on the ground.
A commercial airline pilot, insurance salesman, self
admitted saucer enthusiast reported seeing a UFO while
poaching deer with a spotlight. Kind of weird that you'd want to
tell on yourself, isn't it? An intense noise approached from
the east, a large black object outlined sharply against the
stars, traveling at a tremendous speed.
The sound was there and gone in 45 seconds.
The man couldn't find the deary shot, which he blamed on the
UFO. Investigators weren't impressed
with the exaggerated nature of the story.
The source needs and wears thick glasses, which were not worn at
the time of the sighting. That's what it says in the
report after a site visit and interviews with 12 other people
to pinpoint the matter. One of the interview is a Union
Pacific special agent confirm that a train had gone by the
spot at just that time. Conclusion Locomotive diesel
locomotive sound generated sighting.
Other details attributed to overactive imagination.
Yeah, they did some really heavy duty investigating on that,
didn't they? This one says flash location.
Cheyenne Cheyenne August 26th, 1956 * 615 PMA High school
student reports seeing a UFO, a smooth, silver, rounded shape
object 15 feet in diameter. After a flash or reflection from
it caught his eye, the object moved quickly across the sky,
disappearing behind a hill as it passed over an abandoned car.
A puff of smoke appeared from the car.
The observer reached the car and found the back window shattered.
He's convinced the object was a flying saucer Came from outer
space. Conclusion Case concluded is
meteor and object was in no way responsible for the shattering
of the car window. OK, so did the meteor shatter
the car window or the car window just shattered on its own?
Kind of. You kind of get the drift of the
way things are going here. Red Green object Location
Thermopolis Date September 5th, 1958 Time 9:30 PM A 35 year old
housewife and a 16 year old student named Dick Boots
reported seeing a red green object the size of a pinhead
moving N then northwest. An Air Force jet, an F89-J
piloted by First Lieutenant Marcus J Rogenbrook overflew
Thermopolis and searched in the vicinity for 40 minutes without
citing anything due to pilot being unable to cite any object
and the object being reported as a star shaped.
Believe object may have been a star or other.
Astronomical feature conclusion. Astronomical.
The star Vega. Yeah, yeah.
They really put a lot of time into research in these things.
But I think it's I think it's kind of, it's kind of quaint
reading through these. But at the same time, I think it
just goes to show that these things have been around for a
long time. But what I find really
interesting is this sudden, the sudden tendency of these things
to try to find these power plants.
We have to ask ourselves, are we moving along the next step here
or are we being surveilled by these things over time to at
first are just checking to see what's down here and then maybe
they're going to do a little abduction here and there.
And then later on they're coming through and they're actually
mapping things out, really looking for key assets that we
depend on. And really it's almost like
they're inventorying things. That's that's the thing that
kind of I find a little bit disturbing about all this.
Are we being inventoried? I guess we'll find out at some
point. I hope you enjoyed the program.
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