Oakland, NE, USA
A coworker and I saw a cone shaped object hoover for awhile and with a glow to it then alittle explosion happened and it was gone.
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-15
- Where
- Oakland, NE, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 12 min
- Geo
- 41.836, -96.467 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-oakland-ne-2004-4da778
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Oakland, NE shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from Nebraska in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Report
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