UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2017

Silver Lake, KS, USA

Saturday May 20th, 2017 11:30 p.m. Silver Lake, KS. New moon so no moon that night, perfectly clear and windless, about 55-60º with

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-20
Where
Silver Lake, KS, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
39.104, -95.859 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-silver-lake-ks-2017-87aca2
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…

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In context

  • Silver Lake, KS has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 51 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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