Kansas City, KS, USA
saw a growing burst of brilliant white light that slowly dimmed out of existance ((NUFORC Note: Possible Iridium satellite. PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-04-08
- Where
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.114, -94.627 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kansas-city-ks-2005-b1722a
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
- One of 48 documented reports from Kansas City, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 44 sightings in 2005.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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