CaseLight2017

Phillipsburg, KS, USA

12 red flashing lights, traveling slowly, with a heading in SW KANSAS.

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-09
Where
Phillipsburg, KS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
39.756, -99.324 · exact
Slug
light-over-phillipsburg-ks-2017-168cb9
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…

In context

  • Phillipsburg, KS has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 51 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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