Wichita, KS, USA
I photograph light balls and obj.s in sky every night lately. ((NUFORC Note: Probably celestial bodies, we suspect. PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 28800s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-08-15
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- all night
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-wichita-ks-2009-bf2990
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
- This is one of 152 reports logged in Wichita, KS.
- This case is one of 44 Kansas reports filed in 2009.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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