Circle over North Platte, NE
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
25 to 30 Large Bright Orange Round moving objects with no sound, going north.
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-07-01 → 2013-07-18
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July 29, 2020 · 9:15 PM
North Platte, NE
At approximately 9:15pm sitting in my living room I had just watched a severe thunderstorm go by and it was still cloudy with flashes of lightning in the sky. I suddenly saw a ball of light go across the sky through the clouds. It took no more than a second to disappear over our garage going East to West. Moments later my wife had I were standing in the back yard when she saw the same kind of light moving north to south and only taking a second to go from horizon to horizon. So fast that when I turned it was gone. There was a lot of lightning in the sky but this was not lightning. It was too fast to be any aircraft I have ever seen. I was a helicopter mechanic in the Army and my dad worked on jets for TWA and I grew up living under the landing path for MCI /Kansas City International Airport. I know what planes look like and sound like. The ball of light was partially concealed by the clouds so we could not see any shape other than just a round light.
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North Platte, NE
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North Platte, NE
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