CaseCircle1996
Gothenburg, NE, USA
red flashing light crossing clear night sky west to east horizon to horizon at a speed 5 to 10 times faster than any jet i ever saw.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-07-15
- Where
- Gothenburg, NE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.929, -100.161 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-gothenburg-ne-1996-44a966
In context
- Gothenburg, NE shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Nebraska in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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