UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

LeMars (IA)/Denver (CO) (uncertain; traveling from), NE, USA

Multi-colored "pole," appearing to hang in the sky for several minutes before dissipating slowly, from top to bottom, into darkness.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-30
Where
LeMars (IA)/Denver (CO) (uncertain; traveling from), NE, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
approx. 5 minutes
Geo
42.794, -96.166 · fallback
Slug
light-over-lemars-ia-denver-co-uncertain-traveling-from-ne-1997-70b0f2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in LeMars (IA)/Denver (CO) (uncertain; traveling from), NE.
  • This case is one of 8 Nebraska reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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