McCook, NE, USA
Flashing red/green/blue light seen in eastern sky from McCook, Nebraska. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star in the eastern sky. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-04-02
- Where
- McCook, NE, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- ongoing
- Geo
- 40.202, -100.626 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mccook-ne-2009-519ff7
Part of a wave
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 2 reports logged in McCook, NE.
- This case is one of 26 Nebraska reports filed in 2009.
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