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Mysterious Rotating Lights Over Wyoming Leave UFO Investigator Puzzled
By Joe Garner | The Garner Report
Three mysterious lights captured over Gillette, Wyoming, have attracted the attention of a UFO investigator who says he cannot currently explain what the footage shows.
According to a November 5 report by Cowboy State Daily, local resident Sommer Chase recorded lights appearing to rotate in a triangular formation in the night sky. Her videos have attracted hundreds of thousands of views on social media, renewing questions about unusual aerial activity over the American West.
A Mystery That Followed the Witness
Chase says her experiences with unexplained lights began long before her recent recordings.
Growing up in North Dakota, she recalls seeing a strange light following her grandmother’s vehicle through the early-morning fog. Years later, similar sightings reportedly occurred near Colstrip, Montana, where her husband worked at a coal mine.
Her husband began reporting unusual lights in 2019, and Chase says she witnessed them herself in 2022.
After the family moved to Gillette in June 2026, the sightings reportedly continued.
Chase eventually began sharing recordings of what she believed were the same mysterious lights. The videos show luminous points that appear to move in a rotating, triangular pattern.
UFO Investigator Reviews Footage
Richard Beckwith, Wyoming state director for the Mutual UFO Network, reviewed Chase’s recordings.
He told Cowboy State Daily that he had no explanation for the objects at present.
However, Beckwith emphasized that an unidentified object does not necessarily remain unexplained forever.
The distinction is important. An investigator’s inability to identify an object is not proof of extraterrestrial technology.
Chase believes ordinary explanations such as satellites and drones do not adequately account for what she witnessed. However, her assessment has not been independently established.
Wyoming’s History of Strange Sightings
The Gillette recordings are not the first unusual aerial reports to emerge from Wyoming.
In September 2026, Cowboy State Daily examined footage of mysterious luminous objects recorded near Cody, Wyoming.
That reporting also described recurring observations of drone-like objects in Sweetwater County, including reports involving areas around the Jim Bridger Power Plant.
The incidents are not necessarily related. Nevertheless, the number of observations has attracted attention from witnesses and local investigators.
For researchers, the central challenge remains separating extraordinary claims from conventional aerial activity.
What Could Explain the Lights?
Several possibilities deserve consideration.
Aircraft, satellites, drones, atmospheric effects, and camera artifacts can produce unusual appearances when recorded at night.
Bright points of light are especially difficult to evaluate without reliable distance measurements, precise observation times, camera information, and reference objects.
A seemingly extraordinary maneuver can sometimes be the result of perspective or camera movement rather than an object’s actual flight path.
Additional information, including original video files and independent observations, would help determine whether the lights represent something genuinely unusual.
At present, the publicly reported findings do not establish the objects’ identity or origin.
You Be the Judge
The Gillette sightings offer another example of a familiar UFO mystery: witnesses report unusual activity, cameras capture something unexpected, and investigators are left searching for answers.
Could the lights be drones, distant aircraft, or another conventional phenomenon? Or might further examination uncover something more difficult to explain?
For now, the evidence leaves the question open.
You be the judge.
