Light over Arthur, NE
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
arthur nebr lights!!!!!!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1980-08-12 → 1980-08-29
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February 16, 2021 · 2:08 AM · LIGHT
Arthur, NE
Really quite brilliant, looking toward the west, at some distance on the horizon, a bright light below the cloud cover... twenty degrees, or so, above the horizon. Standing in my driveway, just off the porch, and, as I say, looking west, there remains a singular, stationary, light, which is quite large. My thumb, at arm’s length, doesn’t cover it. The illumination similar to an arc light, or a welder’s torch. According to the National Weather Service, visibility is 7 miles, wind from the SE at 9 mph, temperature 10 degrees below zero, with a wind chill at 19 degrees below zero, and skies are mostly cloudy.
October 8, 2003 · 7:05 PM · LIGHT
Arthur, NE
Very bright light 4x size of Mars.