DeSoto, KS, USA
An anonymous witness in DeSoto, Kansas, reported a fast-moving light traveling in straight-line paths across the northern sky during a brief ten-second sighting in June 1967.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (174 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-15
- Where
- DeSoto, KS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 sec.
- Geo
- 38.979, -94.969 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-desoto-ks-1967-046d61
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- DeSoto, KS has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 8 reports from Kansas.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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