Leavenworth, KS, USA
((HOAX??)) Just a run of the mill UFO
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-11-05
- Where
- Leavenworth, KS, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.311, -94.922 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-leavenworth-ks-2010-954b02
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…
Local cluster
Leavenworth, KS logged 5 reports in the single month of November 2010.
In context
- One of 21 documented reports from Leavenworth, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 51 sightings in 2010.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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