Ainsworth, NE, USA
Bright white light, about 5 times brighter/bigger than the brightest star at night, north of Ainsworth.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-05
- Where
- Ainsworth, NE, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.550, -99.863 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ainsworth-ne-2012-4b50e3
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Ainsworth, NE.
- This case is one of 47 Nebraska reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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