UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Lincoln, NE, USA

Bright star flashing different colors in western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a twinkling star. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 2550s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-08
Where
Lincoln, NE, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
40-45 minutes
Geo
40.800, -96.667 · exact
Slug
light-over-lincoln-ne-2009-4ef288
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Lincoln, NE in September 2009 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Lincoln, NE has 98 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 26 reports from Nebraska.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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