Malcolm, NE, USA
Daytime sighting of large, unmoving, silent sphere that blended with sky & clouds near Lincoln Nebraska in August, 2006
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-15
- Where
- Malcolm, NE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.907, -96.863 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-malcolm-ne-2006-b947dc
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Malcolm, NE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nebraska logged 24 sightings in 2006.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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