2020-09-02 - Cheyenne, WY - Other

Cloud-seeding irregular movement object seen near F.E.Warren AFB Cheyenne WY

At approximately 7:39 p.m., Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020, my partner Marcia and I walked the newly completed asphalt loop in a new subdivision (Saddle Ridge) development in East Cheyenne, WY. I wanted to stall our walk on the North-Eastern corner to get her a better background as the sun would be dropping below the horizon and gives an incredible view.

As we walked up and down the northern stretch gathering panoramic and regular still images of the skyline, I noticed a peculiar shape that did not align naturally and drew my eye to it. After I thought I lost it behind the moving clouds, Marcia, a sheriff‘s deputy here in Laramie County, still had eyes on it and helped me reacquire it.

At that point, I was able to capture it on my iPhone with some not so flattering commentary. As we walked home, it started to move and was what I thought was something slowly crashing through the atmosphere, and we could witness breaking up into smaller pieces like the shape of salmon steak and much more brightly reflective than the more massive body which started to thin, and the wind revealed it to be a formed cloud. I decided to not waste time walking the rest of the loop and cut through the undeveloped land full of live tumbleweeds in sandals just to hurry and grab my pair of Nikon Aculon A211 10x22x50 binoculars to help determine what we were watching.

I called my parents, who reside an hour north of me (Fort Laramie), and see if they could see anything or not. They could not, so I sent her some images trying to show what we were witnessing while trying to talk through what it possibly could be.

Marcia and I continued to talk with my mother on the phone and pass the binoculars back and forth as we watched this object seed clouds in little lines and change angles, descend and ascend while hovering above a wind farm and turbines we have out in the West/Southwest or eight o’clock with proper North orientation.

I had purchased an adapter for the binoculars that I could also use on a telescope and spotting scope come this hunting season and allow me to attach my iPhone to and capture images by magnification. Remembering I had it is a box from my recent move, I left the road in front of my house to quickly grab it to prove what we couldn’t describe. By the time I found the bracket adapter and made it outside, Marcia had lost it, and I swept the last known location, and I too could not locate any further trace.