CaseLight2020

Lincoln, NE, USA

Saw 10-15 bright objects miles between one another flying at very high altitude in a straight line formation headed northeast. (Already

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-05-02
Where
Lincoln, NE, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
40.800, -96.667 · exact
Slug
light-over-lincoln-ne-2020-a89b12
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…

In context

  • This is one of 98 reports logged in Lincoln, NE.
  • This case is one of 33 Nebraska reports filed in 2020.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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