Kansas City, KS, USA
Two brothers in Kansas City, Kansas reported a chevron-shaped object streaking across the sky for about three minutes in July 1954, according to a local investigators' report.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-07-15
- Where
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.114, -94.627 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-kansas-city-ks-1954-d7e8e1
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In context
- This is one of 48 reports logged in Kansas City, KS.
- This case is one of 1 Kansas reports filed in 1954.
- Chevron craft made up 0.3% of 1950s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
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