Nebraska UFO Sightings in 1984

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UFO follows train tracks I was heading east on hi-way 30 towards Maxwell Ne. fifteen miles away. I was taking my best friend home who lived south of the town.

There are railroad tracks that run perpendicular to the hi-way, and I usually did not like heading to Maxwell on that road as the trains always ran with their front light on (they only had one at that time) and I hated that cause they were always on high. But it was early and still light out so I thought it would be fine if there was a train, as it would not blind me then. The weather was cloudy and grey, and it had been misting all day and was cold out.

I can not remember why we were making it an early day, but I think we had a test the next day for school. As I started out of town we were just talking and I noticed that there was a train coming towards us and I immediately thought "Crap, a train with it's light on. I hate that.

" Then as we got a little closer to the "train" I noticed that it looked like a really tall train, as the light was twice as high as it should have been, but still did not think anything was strange about it. Then as we got even closer I realized somthing was not right about it and saw that the light was high above the tracks and my friend stopped talking and I said to him "What the hell is that?" Moving very slowly along the tracks was a football shaped craft the the ends coming to a flat point. The light was on the front pointing straight ahead and there was another I could not see at first pointing directly down onto the tracks.

It also had several small coloured lights at different areas on it. I had pulled over nad actually got out of the car and walked towards it trying to figure out what I was looking at. My friend was freaking out and wanted me to get back in and drive away.

The car never quit running and I did not notice any electrical problems either. Good thing there was no traffic as I probably would have gotten run over! The object did not make any noise at all. It was dead silent.

I stood there and watched it glide down the tracks with the light shineing down on it. The size of it was about a train engine and a half long, it was a fairly big craft. It just faded into the grey mist out of sight.

Finally the cold rain sort of snapped me out of the daze I was in as I watched it and I got back in the car and started off towards my friend's home. We did not say anything for a while and it was sort of like being in a dream. When we did start talking it was like we were trying to make some sense of what we had just witnessed.

I should also mention that this was in sight of the airport which is just south of the hi-way and there are electrical lines that cross the tracks at several points so anyone flying an aircraft along them would have been very foolish and crashed doing so. Also the Union Pacific does not check the lines that way either. The whole sighting took only about five or six minutes even though it seemed like hours, but when I dropped him off and got home it was actually four hours later.

Maxwell is only fifteen minutes up and fifteen back. We left town at around 18:30 hours and I did not get home till after midnight. I still do not really know what to make of that.

The next day when we saw each other, he said to expect the Ne State Patrol to contact me cause his Mom called them after he told her what happened. I was freaked by that cause I just knew that everyone would think we were nuts or high on something. They called the airport to see if there were any planes coming in at that time, and there were none and they saw nothing on their radar either.

We never discussed that event again for years till he asked me to recall the whole thing and I did. Unknown to me he was recording me and he played the tape for a friend of his who said our story's were identical. I know this happened many years ago, but it is still fresh in my memory just as the day it happened.

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).

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((NUFORC Note: Date of incident is approximate. We have requested that the witness attempt to reconstruct the exact date of the incident. PD)) Observed bright light at close range, amasing movement, then hovered and my vehicle quit and lost all electrical system.

I was 25 yrs. old at the time, married, 1 child, worked in the automotive field, licensed pilot. Was working late at the shop and upon heading home(12:30-1 a.

m.) I stopped at intersection of hwy 91 leaving town. Intersection is on top of a hill or plateau w/ a small private airstrip directly across the highway.

I glanced to my right before pulling onto the highway and noticed a single bright light approaching slowly from the east at approx. 1000 feet AGL. I first thought someone was possibly going to try to land as it was noticeably descending and it looked like a aircraft landing light.

(I am a pilot and had a friend who had his airplane hangered there.) Thought it unusual as there are no runway lights. I waited thinking I would shine my headlights down the runway if he circled to land.

The light crossed in front of me at about 300-400 feet AGL, I thought, this nut is going to try it. At the same time as it passed directly over the airport hangers, it drops instantly into the valley that drops off the plateau immediately west of the hangers. It went strait down to within a couple feet off the ground FAST and then flew west across the small valley at a speed several hundred mph in a zigzag pattern still hugging the ground.

I sat open mouthed. At the other side of the valley was a stand of tall cottonwoods and it flew right up to them and then did another 90 degree strait up without slowing down to a height of probably 1500 feet AGL and went west a short distance and appeared to stop in midair. I sat for a minute astounded by what I had just witnessed, and then turned west on the highway still watching it sit there.

(I lived two miles west on the highway) I drove to within 1/8th mile of my house and stopped on the side of highway when it appeared to be strait north of me approx. 3/4 mile. I got out of the car to get a better look at it and to see if I could hear any type of sound from it.

It was silent, I thought about shutting off my engine to get complete silence, but decided it might be wiser to leave it running. I stood and watched it for several minutes, it never moved and I had an eerie feeling like it was watching me also. I remember I was lighting a cigarett! e when s uddenly my car QUIT!! Didn't miss or stumble, just quit like I shut off the key.

Goose bumps rushed over me as I was a mechanic by trade and that car NEVER, EVER quit before since new. I looked down into the car and there were no dashlights, no digital clock, engine/oil lights.nothing! I reached in and pulled the headlight switch on.

nothing. I knew the battery was only 2 mo's old (multimiles best 5 yr. batt.

) and I thought this can't be happening to me. I walked to the front of the car and the light was still sitting there motionless. Scared/angry, I yelled at it not to even Think about it! and began walking toward my house 1/8 mile away.

I reached home and still it never moved, went in the house, sat in the chair and chain smoked two cigarettes while watching it out the window, never moved so I went to bed. I awoke about 4 a.m.

, got up, looked out the window and it was gone. Got up next morning, I walked back to my car, thinking, this will tell the story, actually hoping it wouldn't start, proving that it was just coincidence, got in it, stuck the keys in the ignition and turned them.lights, buzzers, everything.

tried starting it, it started instantly, I shut it off and it started instantly again. I never could make out any shape of the craft or whatever it was, just a steady bright white light, didn't pulsate or change colors or anything like that. It should be noted that for a year or so before that and after that, there were cattle mutilations being reported in central Nebraska.

Don't know if there is any connection. Later that summer I personaly witnessed one about 4 miles west of my house. A white charlia cow, a "perfect" 4-5 inch hole where they removed the sexual organs in the rear, and a perfect 4-5" hole in its chest in front where they removed the heart.

The cow was still sitting in it's sleeping position with it's head curled around as if it was still sleeping. It never awoke or moved, no sign of any struggle, no blood anywhere! Not on it or near it. None! several other people saw it also, along with Greeley co.

sheriff. There were no tracks of any kind around it, happened on a saturday nite/sunday morning. My sister also had a light follow her for 10-15 miles home late one night down two different highways.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them.