Kansas City, MO, USA
I was sleep in my bed with my dog barking which woke me up. I realized that there was a bluish whitish rising from my floor through my
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-09-15
- Where
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- ~10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.100, -94.579 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-kansas-city-mo-1978-9f3276
Part of a wave
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In context
- Kansas City, MO shows up 164 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Missouri in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.