CaseUnknown2020

North Platte, NE, USA

((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD))

Report quality: Low37/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-07-29
Where
North Platte, NE, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
41.124, -100.765 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-north-platte-ne-2020-16d517
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

  • North Platte, NE shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 33 reports came from Nebraska in 2020.

Report

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