CaseChanging2008

Manhattan, KS, USA

Six bright yellow lights in kite, backward "L" and diamond formations

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-28
Where
Manhattan, KS, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 Minutes
Geo
39.184, -96.572 · exact
Slug
changing-over-manhattan-ks-2008-e40903
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Manhattan, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 31 sightings in 2008.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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