Salina, KS, USA
Two strange balls of light in the sky move away from each other and stop
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-18
- Where
- Salina, KS, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.840, -97.611 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-salina-ks-2020-f916da
Part of a wave
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
- Salina, KS has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 71 reports from Kansas.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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