Mitchell, NE, USA
Sitting on the front porch looking at the moon, I look to the left of it and a flash of bright light happen and disappeared at very fas
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-09
- Where
- Mitchell, NE, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.940, -103.809 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-mitchell-ne-2017-0e6988
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Mitchell, NE.
- This case is one of 25 Nebraska reports filed in 2017.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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