Omaha, NE, USA
1/17/2017 Omaha, NE, ball of light erratically moving! ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 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
- 2017-01-17
- Where
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes ?
- Geo
- 41.256, -95.940 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-omaha-ne-2017-8c3b62
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.
- 25 reports came from Nebraska in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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