Kearney, NE, USA
I was out on the back patio around 4:10 in the morning, looking up at eastern sky, and saw a light move in a arc “like it was doing a t
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-29
- Where
- Kearney, NE, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.699, -99.081 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-kearney-ne-2020-6892da
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
- Kearney, NE shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Nebraska in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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