UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Bel Aire, KS, USA

Looking into the southeastern sky a cylinder shaped object became extremely bright and then became dim. About 5 seconds later one light

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-09
Where
Bel Aire, KS, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
46.986, -123.825 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-bel-aire-ks-2016-ea41db
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…

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In context

  • Bel Aire, KS shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 49 reports came from Kansas in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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