CaseFormation1980
North Platte, NE, USA
Massive Pitch Black boulder shaped and jagged edges totally silent zoomed over my window of view at thirty to forthy thousand ft.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-07-17
- Where
- North Platte, NE, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 6 to 8 seconds
- Geo
- 41.124, -100.765 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-north-platte-ne-1980-22760c
In context
- North Platte, NE has 20 sightings on file here.
- 1980 brought 5 reports from Nebraska.
- The 1980s skewed 2.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.