Wichita, KS, USA
Bright white star like with alternating red and green light in center. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" stars?? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-06-10
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- continuing
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-wichita-ks-2016-ca6e84
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
- Wichita, KS shows up 152 times across the archive.
- 49 reports came from Kansas in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.