Omaha, NE, USA
An orange glowing ball the size of the moon was moving across the sky and split in to two and took off into the night sky!
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-23
- Where
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.256, -95.940 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-omaha-ne-2012-a49f63
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
- Omaha, NE shows up 172 times across the archive.
- 47 reports came from Nebraska in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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