CaseLight2016

Central City, NE, USA

Four bright orange lights observed in a linear pattern.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-14
Where
Central City, NE, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.116, -98.002 · exact
Slug
light-over-central-city-ne-2016-66e1dc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Central City, NE shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Nebraska in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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