CaseDisk1958
Phelps County (rural area), NE, USA
In 1958, two witnesses in rural Phelps County, Nebraska, reported a large disk-shaped object approaching across a field at dusk, stopping nearby, then abruptly flying off.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-09-25
- Where
- Phelps County (rural area), NE, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 to 5 min
- Geo
- 40.511, -99.415 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-phelps-county-rural-area-ne-1958-9b33a4
In context
- Phelps County (rural area), NE has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1958 brought 3 reports from Nebraska.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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