NUFORC Sighting 59315

Occurred: 1984-11-15 18:00 Local
Reported: 2007-10-18 23:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: North Platte, NE, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

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

Posted 2007-11-28