North Platte, NE, USA
25 to 30 Large Bright Orange Round moving objects with no sound, going north.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- North Platte, NE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 41.124, -100.765 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-north-platte-ne-2013-646b34
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…
Local cluster
July 2013 was a busy month for North Platte, NE: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 20 reports logged in North Platte, NE.
- This case is one of 28 Nebraska reports filed in 2013.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.