CaseLight2005

Salina, KS, USA

2 lights that split into 2 sets of 4 bright lights flashing and moving across the sky, then disappearing.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-22
Where
Salina, KS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
38.840, -97.611 · exact
Slug
light-over-salina-ks-2005-af425b
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

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Salina, KS.
  • This case is one of 44 Kansas reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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