Lincoln, NE, USA
Saw 10-15 bright objects flying at very high altitude in a straight line formation headed northeast.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-02
- Where
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.800, -96.667 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lincoln-ne-2020-0e71e1
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
- Lincoln, NE shows up 98 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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