UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Dodge City, KS, USA

Maybe it was a weather balloon

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-01
Where
Dodge City, KS, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.753, -100.017 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dodge-city-ks-2010-ae3a7e
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

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Dodge City, KS.
  • This case is one of 51 Kansas reports filed in 2010.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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