CaseCircle2015

Elk City Lake, KS, USA

There was 3 orange lights and it looked like it was spinning. The way I could tell it was spinning was by seeing 2 lights appear then 3

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-15
Where
Elk City Lake, KS, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
Slug
circle-over-elk-city-lake-ks-2015-a92e22
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 1 documented reports from Elk City Lake, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 47 sightings in 2015.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

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