NUFORC UFO Sighting 190785
Occurred: 2025-07-06 22:55 LocalReported: 2025-07-06 23:22 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military
Location: Scottsbluff, NE, USA
Location details: Southwest of Scottsbluff, about 13K feet.
Shape: Cylinder
Color: white
Estimated Size: Half a pinky finger nail.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Southwest to directly overhead
Angle of Elevation: 45
Heading: Northeast, to directly over head.
Closest Distance: 12 K'
Estimated Speed: 250 Knots, give or take
A object that moved silently, self illuminating, very bright white light.
My wife and I were sitting on the deck, which faces south, looking toward the Wildcat Hills. We're beneath a common air traffic route, so we see traditional aircraft all the time. Tonight was different.
Looking southwest, we were discussing family matters when we both noticed a very bright, oval-shaped light in the sky. There were low clouds, but the sky was mostly open, with clouds moving east to northeast. The light had been stationary for a while, and I initially assumed it was Saturn or Jupiter just hanging in the sky.
Then it moved.
It began to silently drift toward the north-northeast, following the direction of the clouds, except it would occasionally disappear behind them. The light maintained a steady brightness throughout. Assuming it was an aircraft, we looked for the usual marker lights on either side—there were none.
Still considering it might be an aircraft, I wondered if it was a landing light, since there’s an airfield just east of us. But as the light passed overhead, its luminosity never changed. Unless the landing lights were somehow pointed directly at us the entire time, which seems highly unlikely, it couldn’t have been standard landing lights.
We both watched it move behind another set of clouds—and it never emerged on the other side. It was just gone. No sound. No noise of any kind.
Shortly after, we saw what appeared to be a jet, with visible marker lights, flying at a high rate of speed toward the southwest—the same direction the unknown light had come from.
The incident sparked an argument between my wife and me about what the light was—or could have been. We couldn’t reach a conclusion, other than this: it was a very bright, silent light that moved steadily from southwest to northeast. Slowly, but not too slowly. I’d estimate its speed at around 250 knots.
Posted 2025-07-10