Callers report round, silver object in sky

Two McCook men -- who did not want their names revealed -- saw an object neither could identify in the air over McCook this morning.

Caller No. 1 -- who said he did not want to be branded "a nutbag. I'm a normal person, ya know." -- described the object in the air over the Kiplinger Arena as "a round disk with a hole in the middle."

"It came out of the east moving west, and then it went straight up into the clouds," he said.

The second man, who also lives near the fairgrounds, said he was sure it was "a weather balloon, don't you think?" but described it as "silver, and round, like a Frisbee."

"It was almost directly overhead and then it went west, and disappeared into the clouds," he said.

The ceiling at McCook Regional Airport this morning was 500 feet, with winds out of the east at 8-10 miles an hour.

Personnel at the McCook airport report releasing no weather balloons. Nor was McCook balloonist, John Kugler, flying this morning.

The police dispatcher said her office received no reports about an unidentifed flying object.