Winfield (5 mi South of), KS, USA
2 objects in close proximity high enought to reflect sun light travelling north then did a large 180 headed back south observed 3-4 min
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-23
- Where
- Winfield (5 mi South of), KS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.240, -96.996 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-winfield-5-mi-south-of-ks-2009-691084
Part of a wave
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Winfield (5 mi South of), KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 44 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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