Newton, KS, USA
This ufo was bright white like the moon and did not fly around fast it looked liked it was in space near the moon and was morphing then
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-02
- Where
- Newton, KS, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.047, -97.345 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-newton-ks-2014-5fec70
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
- Newton, KS shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Kansas in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.