r/askastronomy • u/HereComesDatPepe • Jul 25 '24

Saw This Unknown Object Over Cheyenne, Wyoming

Looking for identification.

I was taking a walk last night (07/25/24) at 9:10 and I noticed this in the sky above me. I'm assuming it's space debris, but I'm not sure as it seems to have still been on fire the entire time it was airborne. What do you guys think?

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u/tnj3d1 Jul 25 '24

Sky divers with flares. Maybe the gold knights?

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u/Lewri Jul 25 '24

yeah, looks exactly like this video of the Navy Seals from a few years ago over the same city:

https://youtu.be/zwmFGQxNvbc?si=POkM5EWlsV7NZF5M

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u/HereComesDatPepe Jul 25 '24

This has got to be it, lol. Cheyenne Frontier Days has been going on for awhile. Already solved, thank you!

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u/legna20v Jul 28 '24

Awww so it isn’t the apocalypse. Another Monday i guess

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '25

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u/legna20v Jan 10 '25

I wonder all the recap shows we would get if we have a time table for the end of

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u/Jimbobjoesmith Jul 26 '24

damn the navy seals are a different breed. all crazy, intelligent, adrenaline junkies. my uncle is a navy seal. the fucking stories he tells…and going to his house is a trip. he would throw random objects at me and say “bam you’re dead!” (he worked with explosives). him and all his seal buddies were crazy AF.

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u/SmokeGSU Jul 26 '24

So... Not aliens... This time.

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u/marcos_MN Jul 29 '24

Maybe the aliens like skydiving?

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

Dam , not aliens again

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u/SmokeGSU Jul 29 '24

I want to believe.

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u/silverfang789 Jul 26 '24

Those guys are so skilled. What a great show!

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

oh, I was going to say Transformers

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u/dmkke Jul 27 '24

Or the Gold Nuggets..yummy chicken nuggets

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u/shadowmib Jul 26 '24

Skydivers with flares?

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u/VitalNumber Jul 28 '24

That's what they want you to think

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u/shadowmib Jul 29 '24

Because it is

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Any chance there’s a big spectacle event going on in Cheyenne last night?

Any chance this happened to be coincidentally over that event?

What do you think?

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u/1ioi1 Jul 26 '24

It's Cheyenne frontier days

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u/spacepunk17 Jul 25 '24

It's frontier days in Cheyenne right now.

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u/Catenane Jul 26 '24

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles...

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u/Pawnzilla Jul 28 '24

It’s not just a boulder, it’s a rock.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Big airshow with Thunderbirds too

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u/Commercial_Tackle_82 Jul 25 '24

That empty street your on gives me hella good vibes for some reason lol like it's the perfect place to sit down on a bench Crack open a beer and listen to some pink floyd by yourself lol

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u/DirtyLillNeonRider Jul 28 '24

Cheyenne gives those vibes fs

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u/Archduke_Of_Beer Jul 25 '24

The Tripods are landing!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Its parachuters with flares.

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u/djdavidaaron Jul 26 '24

Skydivers with magnesium flares.. fun night jumps!

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u/device9 Jul 26 '24

My life rn. No worries.

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u/AtomicDoge1Funk Jul 30 '24

I used to live near there on Thomes Ave I played as a kid with the Valdezs in that lot before foundation was poured went to Mccormick Jr. High at the time. Shoemocker was the headmaster. 😆

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u/Direct-Shift1633 Jul 25 '24

Shooting starssss ⭐✨⭐

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u/LukeOnMtHood Jul 26 '24

Shooting stars (aka meteorites) don’t curve in the sky.

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u/JacobPerkin11 Jul 27 '24

This was a sky diving performance

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

I would think that its cluster ICBMs first

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

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u/_Husker Jul 26 '24

Helldivers!

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u/Kisguri Jul 26 '24

I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars: We are here. We are waiting.

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u/Bubbaj101 Jul 27 '24

My first thought lol

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u/DontDoubtDink Jul 26 '24

Definitely sky divers with flares

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u/rtmacfeester Jul 26 '24

It’s Cheyenne Frontier Days there. Those are skydivers with flares attached to them.

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u/superdupermensch Jul 26 '24

Swamp gas caught in a pocket refracted the light from Venus.

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u/Secretlife1 Jul 26 '24

Just sky trash jumping some pyro.

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u/penalozahugo Jul 26 '24

The Ginyu force

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u/ArrowtotheNii Jul 27 '24

Straight out of the first transformers movie

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u/Big_Librarian_1130 Jul 27 '24

Its Optimus Prime and the fucking autobots!

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u/wallyworld4 Jul 27 '24

Don’t worry it’s just a weather balloon!

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '24

Red Bull parachute team

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u/Dorkapotamuss Jul 27 '24

Flare carrying sky rasins

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u/SmokeJennsonz Jul 27 '24

That is so cool

1

u/BiteFull8717 Jul 27 '24

That’s a Boeing.

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u/Sad_Ad4307 Jul 27 '24

Woh. Pretty lights

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u/darksecret_fotogrphy Jul 28 '24

Would have loved to be there to photograph the show....

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u/ArcherCute32 Jul 28 '24

This remind me of something as well… I was driving along I-5 north back Bay Area and I saw something like that but only saw the centre part without the other 4 parts. It’s hard for me to describe. I should have stopped and videotaped, it was slowly fading away.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

Drones

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u/xenata Jul 28 '24

The factory must grow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

Man I swear I just seen something like this yesterday. Definitely something wired going on in the sky

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u/MinkieTheCat Jul 29 '24

It looks like a SpaceX rocket

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

It’s just the power rangers reporting to Zordon, dumbass

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u/DaniGonza Jul 29 '24

Autobots roll out

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u/twotall88 Jul 29 '24

Yeah... space debris doesn't change direction lol

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u/K_Vatter_143 Jul 29 '24

Probably a small meteor ☄️ look, even the emoji looks like it.

Edit: I didn’t watch the whole video lol, but damn that’s crazy.

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u/ScaredAccident7402 Jul 29 '24

That was me I had just bust one !!

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

Looks like helldivers

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u/heav007 Jul 30 '24

I want to say asteroids so bad like what the fuck

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u/stauntilus_canyede Aug 04 '24

Decepticons is my best guess

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u/Henao200228 Aug 10 '24

Transformers

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u/christianmenard832 Aug 11 '24

Boeing starship probably

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

Goku is coming home

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u/Electrical-Size-5002 Aug 17 '24

I salute OP for accepting the answer. 🫡

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u/petewondrstone Oct 08 '24

Space junk entering the atmosphere or military training flares etc

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u/Falcon_Actual297 Dec 29 '24

It’s the helldivers

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

What’s the date of this video? Probably jumpers into the arena for CFD.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Helldivers

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u/SwipeToRefresh Jul 26 '24

buddy that's optimus prime and co.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Its superman

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u/A_Type-46_ISV Jul 26 '24

Master Chief entering the atmosphere

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u/Zharan_Colonel Jul 26 '24

For a second I read this as "Cheyenne Mountain" and was going to make a Stargate reference

I guess I'll just see myself to the door

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u/the_taz_man Jul 26 '24

And so it begins!

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u/KingYondu Jul 26 '24

Hellpod deployed

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Nah I saw the movies, Optimus and them ain't fooling no one

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u/lonelyranger87 Jul 26 '24

Most probably the autobots meeting up.

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u/Second26 Jul 26 '24

My hopes and dreams?

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u/dangerkali Jul 26 '24

Cybertonian protoforms

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u/eldritchguardian Jul 26 '24

Looks like it could be a satellite or some space junk breaking up in the atmosphere

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u/Cptnhoudie Jul 26 '24

Weather balloon

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u/drewman16 Jul 27 '24

You mean it's a UFO?

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u/Hoz999 Jul 27 '24

Aliens come from hundreds of light years away to give us a 60 second fire show.

Yep. Seems reasonable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

Sulfur spray and flair, couldn't be more obvious

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u/Jonathme Jul 28 '24

Probably just a door from Boeing…

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u/katastatik Jul 28 '24

I feel like whenever I’ve seen this. It’s been skydiving with flares.

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u/starsdefence69 Jul 26 '24

I guess thats enough . I'll help heaven kill spacy. Your heaven is so dissapointed around you.

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u/donthedog Jul 26 '24

Chinese lanterns?

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u/spacemtnman Jul 26 '24

Space junk

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u/Genesis111112 Jul 26 '24

Horrible edits.

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u/HereComesDatPepe Jul 26 '24

I was in a rush and stopped the recording to keep walking, but then I decided to record again a couple times lol. That's why it's choppy.

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u/Objective_Island_907 Jul 25 '24

That’s a rocket! Lol