Lincoln, NE, USA
On a spring night in 1997 I was sitting in a car at a park with a friend talking. I would periodically look out my window for no reaso
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-15
- Where
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 40.800, -96.667 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lincoln-ne-1997-4968f0
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
- Lincoln, NE shows up 98 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Nebraska in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.