North Platte, NE, USA
20+ reddish gold orbs floating from the south of community to the 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 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
- >1 hour
- Geo
- 41.124, -100.765 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-north-platte-ne-2013-f3d4e3
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
North Platte, NE logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2013.
In context
- One of 20 documented reports from North Platte, NE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nebraska logged 28 sightings in 2013.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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