Papillion, NE, USA
Me, and two of my friends were outside late tuesday night, when we saw five lights in a pentagon shape. The lights started moving slowl
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-12
- Where
- Papillion, NE, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.154, -96.042 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-papillion-ne-1997-b63872
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Papillion, NE shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Nebraska in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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