All Reported UFO Sightings in Columbus, Nebraska

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57 separate bright white lights flying from West Southwest to the Northeast I went to let my dogs out at approx 6:10am this morning it was still pretty dark out yet so visibility was pretty good In the night sky with very little if not any cloud cover. I often look up at the sky this time of year because of the waterfowl usually flying over. I happened to notice a bright white light traveling from west southwest towards the Northeast.

I thought nothing of it at first because we typically see allot of satellites traveling over head in the night and early morning. I watched it for a minute then happened to see another one trailing behind the first one and it appeared to be a few to several miles behind the initial light. I thought that to be strange but not completely out of the ordinary.

Then I saw another and another and another. Then sometimes 2 close together but not connected. Then another and another.

It was a constant stream of separate lights all flying in the same direction at presumably the same altitude. It was quiet and very little wind so I could hear that they made no noise and no vapor trail was visible. As we see many commercial jets fly over all the time and they are easy to differentiate.

I yelled at my son To come outside to see if he could see what I was seeing and he and I stood and watched no less than 57 separate flying objects passed over in a 20 min period flying on that same heading. Sometimes pretty good distances apart and several flying fairly close together. But we felt the pattern was quite random to be sure.

I am a military vet and I’ve seen allot of different strategic flying formations, from both Navy and Air Force and I felt this was just to weird to ignore. We counted 57 but am not sure how long it had been going on before I spotted em. We tried recording the images but they were to small to pick up on our phone cameras.

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57 separate bright white lights flying from West Southwest to the Northeast I went to let my dogs out at approx 6:10am this morning it was still pretty dark out yet so visibility was pretty good In the night sky with very little if not any cloud cover. I often look up at the sky this time of year because of the waterfowl usually flying over. I happened to notice a bright white light traveling from west southwest towards the Northeast.

I thought nothing of it at first because we typically see allot of satellites traveling over head in the night and early morning. I watched it for a minute then happened to see another one trailing behind the first one and it appeared to be a few to several miles behind the initial light. I thought that to be strange but not completely out of the ordinary.

Then I saw another and another and another. Then sometimes 2 close together but not connected. Then another and another.

It was a constant stream of separate lights all flying in the same direction at presumably the same altitude. It was quiet and very little wind so I could hear that they made no noise and no vapor trail was visible. As we see many commercial jets fly over all the time and they are easy to differentiate.

I yelled at my son To come outside to see if he could see what I was seeing and he and I stood and watched no less than 57 separate flying objects passed over in a 20 min period flying on that same heading. Sometimes pretty good distances apart and several flying fairly close together. But we felt the pattern was quite random to be sure.

I am a military vet and I’ve seen allot of different strategic flying formations, from both Navy and Air Force and I felt this was just to weird to ignore. We counted 57 but am not sure how long it had been going on before I spotted em. We tried recording the images but they were to small to pick up on our phone cameras.

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I took my son to the store about 9:00 pm on the evening of July 4th, 2010. We left the store around 10:15 pm. My store receipt reads that we checked out at 22:10:13.

It was the fourth of July and there were many fireworks in the area. We were driving west. As we turned south toward our neighborhood, I noticed a red and orange fireball just above the trees to the west.

It seemed to have a red center with a orange misty glow around it. It was about the height of a street light and from our point of view, the outer glow looked like the size of a basketball. It was difficult to tell if the "glow" was part of object or due to viewing it through the windshield.

I traveled a block south and turned west on a street toward our neighborhood. I turned a street earlier than I usually do to get a better look at the object. When I came to the next intersection, 1/2 block distance, we saw the object above a house to the south.

We turned south. I told my 11 year old son to keep an eye on it as I drove. I traveled the length of two more blocks (still going south) and then turned west again.

The object was now above the houses on the south side of the west bound street. We drove two blocks to our house. I pulled into the driveway.

My husband was in the yard with the kids. I jumped out of the car and pointed it out to my husband. It was south of our house in the sky at about a 45 degree angle and getting small but still too bright to be a star - and it was orange red.

We watched it get smaller assuming it was getting further away. It took several minutes before it disappeared. I went inside and the family continued to shoot fireworks.

I would estimate I was in the house ten minutes when my son came in and said "Dad needs you." When I asked why, my son said, "The orange light is back". Sure enough.

In the same spot it disappeared it appeared again It looked like a very bright orange star. I watched it for several minutes then came inside. My husband reported it moved slightly to the west and then grew small and disappeared again.

What drew our attention to the object was the fourth of July fireworks in our area. As we were driving home and nearing our neighborhood, we were watching the fireworks. A large firework in that area lit off but this orange ball didn't move.

We expected it to explode and it didn't. At first I thought it was a street light on fire or a fire in the trees. Then as it floated above the houses, I wondered if it were a parachute type firework that was on fire and I was concerned about where it was going to land.

When we first saw it, it was floating about the height of the street light and below the trees. It climbed to float above a one story house. Soon it was above the larger two story houses and when we finally saw it in the distance it seemed to be very high in the sky.

We zigzagged in a south and west pattern to our home. The object seemed to move south - southwest. My vehicle was moving slowly at a 15 mph estimated speed.

The object moved ahead of us and I would assume it moved a quicker speed than our vehicle, but not much given that it dissected our route.

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4 to 5 shinny object with no sound flew over the house heading due west. My wife called for me to come to the backyard and look up in the sky. I came outside and look up and their were these round objects that were really shinny and moving really fast.

I was freaking out and ran back into the house for the camera. I ran back out to look for one and didn't see them anymore then minute later two more flew over the house. I would say these things were flying about 10,000 feet maybe.

We have a small airport near by and these objects didn't fly any higher then these smaller aircraft. All I can say is WoW, plus my wife is so anti this kind of stuff I thought is was funny she saw the first two and called for me to look. Crazy!.

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Triangular craft seen by three females. I was driving in a vehicle with two of my friends both female. I was riding in the passenger seat.

While looking out my window I noticed a blinking object moving very fast towasrds us. We were on gravel roads outside town near a gas station called Lakw Stop. My friend decided to pull over in the station and we all got out.

By that time the object was directly over us and was only about 200 ft. up. It made no sound but the bottom was lit with alternating red, oarnge, and white lights.

I then began to get hystericle and told my friends to get back in the car. We spend to town and the aircraft followed us about a mile away and then disappeared.

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The year & month is estimated above, but the exact date will coincide with sightings of lights all over the midwest.Radio reports the next day were calling the unknown lights in the sky everything from snow geese to northern lights. It should be easy to nail down this date from old records somwhere.

The lights in the sky were reported from South Dakota to Kansas, and from Colorado to Iowa. It seemed to me the next day from the radio reports that we were in the center of things, and that what ever direction you went from our point of view most descriptions varied, but none were what we had seen or experienced. My story: I and a friend had been riding our motorcycles that evening and had returned to my home, a double wide along the Platte River between Columbus and Duncan Ne.

, shortly before midnight. I had been a long day ang we went inside for a short nightcap before my friend was going to head back home to Columbus. We had just had a different odd experience minutes before we reached my home.

as we turned off hiway 30 onto the blacktop road that led to my place the road suddenly was alive literally thousands of glittering jhewl like things, actually covering the road. It was not long before we realized what we were onto. thousands upon thousands of small toads on the road.

I was all we could do to keep from crashing as we mashed though them. We had to ride slowly with our legs extended to stay upright. Not to mention the sound and the splattering all over our bikes and ourselves.

Nausiating to say the very least. I all my years living there, and all the other odd things I have seen and experienced in that area, I had never ever seen that many toads, & green frogs, at one time on the road like that. There could not have been a square foot of open space anywhere on that whole two mile run! Back to the main story: It was after we hosed off the bikes and ourselves that we went into the house for a nightcap.

I had borrowed a clean pair of pants to my friend who was prolonging his trek home , in the hopes the mass of creatures would be dissipated by the time he left. We were seated in my dining area by the east window, which was open as were the rest of the windows in the house on that warm midsummer night. It had started to cool slightly but not to a chill as of yet.

I had poured a Crown Royal on the rocks for each of us and had no more than taken the first sip,(This I want to make perfectly clear, we had not even had one drink when this happened!),when all went suddenly completly quiet. Till then all the usual night noises were going on as usual. Cows baying in the distance, frogs and crickets, chirping down in the slew.

Night hawks, owls ,neibors dogs barking ect. It was so sudden and so completely quiet that we locked eyes and and froze for a second or two. When we looked to the window there was a dull red light on the widow sill, and a dull red glow everywhere outside.

I leaned over to the window and tryed to look up to see what was causing this but could not see anything. We got up and went to the bay windows to the south, facing the meadow betwen us and the the tree line along the river bank, about a half mile away. There in the sky, almost directly above us was a ring.

It looked like a smoke ring actually. A fat smoke ring , bright white with a red fringe on the edges. We grabbed a matched pair of my 22 caliber rifles and headed out the door down the steps , across the yard , through the slew and about 75 to 100 yards out into the meadow.

The hat had not yet been cut and we were knee to hip deep in grass. The ring was slowly getting larger and thinner directly above our heads. We were trying to figure out what this might possibly be, anthing from a exploded rocket,bomb, metorite,we just did not have a clue.

We watched the ring slowly expand for several minutes. The brightness never dimmed as it got bigger and thinner. As it did this we became aware that although we could see the stars on the outside of the rings all round we could not see any in the black center area of the ring.

It was a t this point that we were beginning to get a real creepy feeling about the whole thing. The moon was in plain sight to our southwest, at about a 45 deg. angle to the horizon.

Half the horizon away from the ring above our heads. This whole time not a sound could be heard and it seemed that our words were falling on dead air as well, as if we could not have heard each other had we been only a few more yards apart. Hard to explain! About the time that the ring covered 1/4 or slightly less of the sky area red spears of light started arcing down from the rings outer edge.

When these were mabey 1/4 of the way to the ground then white ones did the same spaced evenly between the red. At first we thought that the beams were very high and following the arc of the horizon but when the first ones came down far enough to the ground we could see that the beams were between us and the home place,(My fathers farm about 3/4 mile north of us.), and on the south side seemed to be within the 1/3 mile of tree line along the north river bank.

We were in side what I have can only call a cereal bowl effect. Like beeing in a bird cage. We could see stars between the beams.

then a sweet sickening smell was in the air. it was hard to breeth withthis putred sweet smell. First a pricking static like electricity in the air, then nothing.

We both began regaining our senses some time later several tens of yards apart. wet laying in the wet grass,( sitting up actually.) disorientated, at least 2hrs had passed since we first walked outside.

All was gone but a hint of the sickening sweet smell. We made our way back into the house and sat back down on at the table. The ice in our glasses had long melted.

The clock read 2:20-somthing. After about an hour my friend left for home. The next morning on the way to work was the first I heard the radio talk of all the sightings for 500 miles around us in each direction.

There were so many different versions, and experts versions all I could do was shake my head. My friend and I worked together, and discussed this only with a shrt list of friends after that. NOTE: I want absolutly no publicity over this!!! I am relaying this to you hoping mabey that you may have some other info relating to this for me, or some other similar event somwhere else.

This is the only reason for any contact I will accept. The only contact with me is though my e-mail, thank you. p.

s. I and my father had a sighting when I was about 10 yrs old at the farm. Since I have had three others, each different, one was simply spotting a oval shped object passing from a cloud though open blue sky and into or behind another cloud, only this this was reflecting the color of the sky behind it.

It did not change from the white color to match the blue sky right away and that is how I caught sight of it. this was about two years ago heading east on hiway 33 west of Crete ne. The other was summer 2000,.

I had taken my 12 year old daughter out with me to star gaze on the hill behind the lake community where we live. I have beendoing this periodically for years, yet had never seen anything. This was the first time I had let her stay up this late to go with me.

We had been there for about 15-20 minutes, and she was already whining about going back when we saw two objects comming our direction from the northwest. There is a gravel road about 1/3 mile west of us. You can here the gravel crunching under a cars tires from where we were.

The objects each had a bank of 5 lights in front of them. One was following the other just behind and to the west. They crossed the road west of us and the lights lit up the road like search lights.

I thought they were helicopters untill they got that close and made no sound at all. All we could see was the lights because they were so bright. They passed us less than 1/4 mile away to the north and dipped down out of sight in the valley northof us.

A few minutes later they popped up several miles north headed west this tim and then dipped down out of sight again. Even looking with binoculars at them as they were headed away we could not make out any shape of a craft. Just after they dipped out of sight the first time a car passed on the gravel road with the radio blairing and we could hear that well.

This happened about 5 miles north of Crete ne. at about 10:30 pm on a wednsday night. That is all I have to report.

Pardon any tyo's I am doing this fast as I am @ work.