Bladen, NE, USA
Looked like a spotlight was turned on in a round object like an ornament.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-16
- Where
- Bladen, NE, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- ~30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.322, -98.595 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bladen-ne-2013-49e800
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
- Bladen, NE shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from Nebraska in 2013.
Report
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