Lakin, KS, USA
Was returning to house after taking trash to dumpster.I get to my backyard something caught my eye.Large craft fairly low I'm guessing
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-19
- Where
- Lakin, KS, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.941, -101.255 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-lakin-ks-2018-721c33
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Lakin, KS.
- This case is one of 31 Kansas reports filed in 2018.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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