CaseRectangle1985
North Platte, NE, USA
Massive UFO at Union Pacific Bailey Yard.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-08-16
- Where
- North Platte, NE, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 35-40 minutes
- Geo
- 41.124, -100.765 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-north-platte-ne-1985-12dcce
In context
- North Platte, NE shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Nebraska in 1985.
- In the 1980s, 3.2% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.