Brainard (6 mi. E of; on Hwy. 92), NE, USA
Orange cresent object with trail moving northwest to southwest..no sound, no decent 2-3 min across sky
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-16
- Where
- Brainard (6 mi. E of; on Hwy. 92), NE, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.184, -97.004 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-brainard-6-mi-e-of-on-hwy-92-ne-2012-e1e8b3
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 Brainard (6 mi. E of; on Hwy. 92), NE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nebraska logged 47 sightings in 2012.
Report
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