CaseLight2001
Independence, KS, USA
Giant white 'Sparkler' wedged in tree during snowstorm
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-30
- Where
- Independence, KS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20-30 minutes
- Geo
- 37.224, -95.708 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-independence-ks-2001-3a805a
In context
- Independence, KS has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 32 reports from Kansas.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.