Mystery as flock of UFOs seen hovering above power station for more than a year

A small town sheriff has admitted he is perplexed by a series of mysterious flying objects which have been bewildering locals in his Wyoming community for more than a year.

Unidentified flying objects [UFOs] have been regularly spotted for 13 months above the Jim Bridger Power Plant and Sweetwater County’s Red Desert.

John Grossnickle, the Sheriff of Sweetwater County, saw lit-up, drone-like objects as recently as December 13, his spokesman Jason Mower told Cowboy State Daily.

Mower said they’ve worked with everyone they can possibly think of to try and solve the mystery in the sky.

‘We’ve done everything we can to figure out what they are, and nobody wants to give us any answers,’ he said.

Locals are now so accustomed to the strange sightings that the Sheriff’s office has stopped receiving calls about them, the spokesman told the outlet.

‘It’s like the new normal,’ Mower said.

He also noted that the objects are thousands of feet above the earth, making them too high to shoot from the ground. 

Mower said there have been no issues or concerns among locals in the region, other than their presence. 

However, if the UFOs were to cause danger, ‘rest assured … we’ll certainly act accordingly,’ Mower added.

The first drone sightings in Sweetwater came as New Jersey was gripped by mass hysteria when drones were seen repeatedly lighting up the night sky.

A private contractor seemingly solved that mystery after revealing at the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker in August that they had launched the objects to ‘test out their capabilities,’ according to the NY Post.

‘You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us,’ an employee of the unnamed contractor allegedly told a crowd at the event.

According to a source at the summit, the employee went on to claim there was no need to disclose their work to the public because they had a private government contract.

Some 964 sightings of flying objects were logged in the state between November 19 up until December 13 of 2024, according to statistics collected by the state’s Office of Emergency Management.

At the first press briefing of President Trump’s second administration on January 28, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had authorized drones and that they did not pose a national security threat.

The FAA last attributed the sightings to ‘lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, law enforcement drones, manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones’.

The agency then issued a temporary ban on flying drones, but as the sightings continued, warned that ‘deadly force’ could be used against drones that present an ‘imminent security threat.’

Exclusive polling from DailyMail.com and J.L. Partners found that nearly half (45 percent) of people believe the bizarre activity was more than just recreational or normal drone use, with the majority (26 percent) of those respondents pointing to foreign surveillance.

The foreign powers mentioned were China or Russia, which has been suspected among lawmakers like Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who said some of the unidentified aircraft are ‘spy drones.’

But 19 percent of Americans do believe the sightings are nothing more than hobby drones and 18 percent stated they are ‘normal flying actives that have been exaggerated.’

There are some Americans (17 percent) who believe the drones were government surveillance tools, but 10 percent said the craft was actually protecting citizens.

And a small eight percent are sure the drones are alien vehicles.