UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Wichita, KS, USA

A white orb appeared in the sky, stationary for a bit, then disappeared.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-09
Where
Wichita, KS, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
37.692, -97.338 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-wichita-ks-2016-2b5a3c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Wichita, KS has 152 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 49 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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