Salina, KS, USA
Our family was watching our town's firework display to the east and one family member felt the urge to look behind them (to the west) a
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-04
- Where
- Salina, KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes?
- Geo
- 38.840, -97.611 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-salina-ks-2020-160114
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 shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Kansas in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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