CaseFireball1987
Kansas, KS, USA
Large blue light seen at night hovers and descends to earth
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-06-01
- Where
- Kansas, KS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.114, -94.627 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kansas-ks-1987-da8f52
In context
- Kansas, KS has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1987 brought 7 reports from Kansas.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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