UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Kearney, NE, USA

Large, round, red light sighted in Kearney, Nebraska silently flying very low and slow to the ground.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-05
Where
Kearney, NE, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.699, -99.081 · exact
Slug
circle-over-kearney-ne-2009-ed44ea
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Kearney, NE shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 26 reports came from Nebraska in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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