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I'm sorry for posting a news article in a cut and paste job (and it's the 2nd time this week), but this happened recently and due to the behavior of the lights and occupational positions of the witnesses, it seems to stand out from the usual legion of "light in the sky" reports.
The article, for a local paper, is quite good and goes into detail on the long history of sightings in the area. I will omit this historical overview here but will post a link to the whole article at the end for those interested.
The following appears in the December 11, 2008 issue of the North Platte Bulletin:
Deputies investigate UFOs near Jeffrey Lake
by Frank Graham (North Platte Bulletin) - 12/11/2008
Two deputies investigated the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the sky south of Brady Nov. 21, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer.
Although both deputies and the man who called to report the lights dancing in the sky observed them for more than 15 minutes, they could offer no explanation about what they were.
“One deputy, who has an extensive amount of military experience and has witnessed a lot of military maneuvers first hand, said he’d never seen anything like them,” Kramer said. “They could not explain what they were.”
A man who lives near Jeffrey Lake reported the lights in the sky to the 911 Center about 7:30 Nov. 21, according to an LCSO report. A dispatcher reported the call to on-duty deputies, who responded to the call.
Kramer said both deputies observed the lights first hand.
“The report says they first observed a blue light with a red tail fall out of the sky toward a field,” Kramer said. “It stayed stationary for a short time then disappeared.”
Kramer said the deputies observed lights that appeared to hover then take off in one direction or another. He said the deputies reported that they never saw more than three lights together at one time and that there was no sound coming from them.
Kramer said the deputies reported that the lights were “too fast to be helicopters and too agile to be jet aircraft.”
The lights were reported to be blue and white, according to Kramer.
The deputies also reported that one of the lights would occasionally drop directly down toward the earth and then suddenly rise up again into the sky.
The deputies observed the lights in the southern sky for about 15 minutes before they suddenly darted off and disappeared.
Kramer said one deputy managed to get a picture of the lights shot with a digital camera through his night vision goggles but that the pictures didn’t offer much evidence as they were too grainy and the lights appeared so small.
The man who reported the lights said he often watched military helicopters on maneuvers in the canyons during the summer but said it was nothing like the lights Nov. 21.
Others at Lake Maloney also reported seeing the unidentified lights in the eastern sky.
Dispatchers checked with Denver International Airport, which covers radar for this area, but they said the radar only monitored activity at 14,000 feet and above.
The deputies reported the lights were much lower than that in the sky.
Mike Sharkey, manager of the North Platte Regional Airport, said the dispatchers called him at home to see if he could shed any light on the mysterious lights but he said that Lee Bird Field has no radar and could offer no further information.
A spokesman for the National Weather Service office in North Platte said their radar rarely picks up any aircraft or UFOs. He said no one noticed anything unusual on their radar Nov. 21.
Kramer said he too could offer no explanation for the mysterious lights.
North Platte Nebraska's favorite newspaper - The North Platte Bulletin
The article, for a local paper, is quite good and goes into detail on the long history of sightings in the area. I will omit this historical overview here but will post a link to the whole article at the end for those interested.
The following appears in the December 11, 2008 issue of the North Platte Bulletin:
Deputies investigate UFOs near Jeffrey Lake
by Frank Graham (North Platte Bulletin) - 12/11/2008
Two deputies investigated the sighting of unidentified flying objects in the sky south of Brady Nov. 21, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer.
Although both deputies and the man who called to report the lights dancing in the sky observed them for more than 15 minutes, they could offer no explanation about what they were.
“One deputy, who has an extensive amount of military experience and has witnessed a lot of military maneuvers first hand, said he’d never seen anything like them,” Kramer said. “They could not explain what they were.”
A man who lives near Jeffrey Lake reported the lights in the sky to the 911 Center about 7:30 Nov. 21, according to an LCSO report. A dispatcher reported the call to on-duty deputies, who responded to the call.
Kramer said both deputies observed the lights first hand.
“The report says they first observed a blue light with a red tail fall out of the sky toward a field,” Kramer said. “It stayed stationary for a short time then disappeared.”
Kramer said the deputies observed lights that appeared to hover then take off in one direction or another. He said the deputies reported that they never saw more than three lights together at one time and that there was no sound coming from them.
Kramer said the deputies reported that the lights were “too fast to be helicopters and too agile to be jet aircraft.”
The lights were reported to be blue and white, according to Kramer.
The deputies also reported that one of the lights would occasionally drop directly down toward the earth and then suddenly rise up again into the sky.
The deputies observed the lights in the southern sky for about 15 minutes before they suddenly darted off and disappeared.
Kramer said one deputy managed to get a picture of the lights shot with a digital camera through his night vision goggles but that the pictures didn’t offer much evidence as they were too grainy and the lights appeared so small.
The man who reported the lights said he often watched military helicopters on maneuvers in the canyons during the summer but said it was nothing like the lights Nov. 21.
Others at Lake Maloney also reported seeing the unidentified lights in the eastern sky.
Dispatchers checked with Denver International Airport, which covers radar for this area, but they said the radar only monitored activity at 14,000 feet and above.
The deputies reported the lights were much lower than that in the sky.
Mike Sharkey, manager of the North Platte Regional Airport, said the dispatchers called him at home to see if he could shed any light on the mysterious lights but he said that Lee Bird Field has no radar and could offer no further information.
A spokesman for the National Weather Service office in North Platte said their radar rarely picks up any aircraft or UFOs. He said no one noticed anything unusual on their radar Nov. 21.
Kramer said he too could offer no explanation for the mysterious lights.
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