



Two sightings were reported to MUFON that were witnessed in Lincoln. One person, who was looking at the fireworks through an east facing window, first saw the orange light traveling from northeast to west. It headed towards his location and when it passed over his house he went outside with a pair of binoculars. Its speed and light were constant (no flashing lights like on a conventional aircraft), but then it started to dim. As it became faint while moving west he looked at it through the binoculars and saw a circular greyish object. He went back inside when it disappeared, but venturing outside again a bit later saw one coming from the west going east. He got his father to come out to see them and they saw a pair of them in the north moving from east to west and then one last object from the south heading north. (reported to MUFON on 7/5/2010)

The other sighting from Lincoln was by a couple who had a close encounter with one of three red orbs that exited from a hovering triangular craft. One of the orbs came within one hundred yards of them. That spooked the wife and they went back inside. They said it was completely silent, didn't behave like conventional aircraft and that it was obvious that they were intelligently controlled. (reported to MUFON on 7/5/2010)

The second earliest report time for Nebraska on this evening for sightings logged at the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) was at 9:55pm or almost an hour after the first one. At that time, one witness in the small town of Fort Calhoun, 8 miles north of Omaha, was out taking pictures of fireworks with his expensive camera. He noticed a reddish/orange light coming from the town of Bennington in the southwest. It was moving slower than a plane and heading north. It had no blinking lights and was traveling just over the cloud base on that partly cloudy evening. When he used his telephoto lens to zoom in on it he realized that it was actually three orbs close together. He went in the house to get his wife to come out to witness the event. They saw the object turn and move closer to their location for a short distance and then loop towards the south. At this point it was about twice as close as when he first observed it. Long before it would have faded from sight in the distance it simply blinked out. (reported to NUFORC on 7/14/2010)

Another sighting from North Bend (the previous one, a few sightings above this one, having been reported to MUFON), seems to be from a second group of witnesses to the very same event. They also mention that between the first and second appearance of the object 15-20 minutes had passed. They indicate that the first object was seen at 10pm and the third one at 11pm. It had first been seen coming from the southeast and traveled to the north (the other report also said it was traveling north). Its light was constant and it traveled at a fairly fast and steady clip as it moved silently through the sky. When it was northeast of them it quickly faded out of site. Each time the object appeared and disappeared it traveled along the same path as before and vanished in the same spot. On its third showing they had binoculars ready and found most of its light to come from the "perimeter of the circumference" of the sphere and it burned like the light of a candle. It was said to be ten times brighter than the brightest star. It was a moonless night. (reported to NUFORC on 7/5/2010)

At about 10:15pm in Columbus, a mother and her son were traveling home from the store when she spotted a basketball sized object in the west just above the trees that had "a red center with an orange misty glow around it". She turned down streets to follow it and saw it over a nearby house before she traveled a few more blocks to her house and ran out of the car to have her husband come look. By then it was getting smaller and dimmer in the south, but still too bright to be a star. A few minutes later it disappeared but returned once more about ten minutes later. (reported to NUFORC on 7/5/2010)

A third report from Lincoln (the most for any one location on this evening in Nebraska) was for a sighting that began at 10:30pm. At that time a couple witnessed "2 orange lights which were very bright in the sky, moving slowly and hovering over some residentials east of us. This was right over 21st & Superior." They then went inside to get dressed for work. A short time later a father of one of the two called to them that if they wanted to see a UFO that they better get back outside. In the same spot as they had seen the two orbs before they now saw five in a straight horizontal line formation. The two lights on each end then faded out and the three remaining lights formed a very large triangular pattern in the sky. "The top one than faded away and the 2 remaining "lights" on the bottom looked as if they began shifting. It truly looked like the circle lights were almost "morphing" into a crescent moon shaped light. Than quickly faded away." (the witness wasted no time to report this to NUFORC, 25 minutes after the sighting began)



