Lawrence, KS, USA
Isosceles triangle shaped craft, seemingly hovering, and then disappearing.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-05
- Where
- Lawrence, KS, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- ~2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.972, -95.235 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-lawrence-ks-2004-78be4d
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
- Lawrence, KS shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Kansas in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.