CaseCircle2019

Kansas City, MO, USA

I received a phone call from a friend asking if I was observing the objects in the N sky. ((NUFORC Note: High-altitude balloon? PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-06-20
Where
Kansas City, MO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
39.100, -94.579 · exact
Slug
circle-over-kansas-city-mo-2019-5b5a66
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

June 2019 was a busy month for Kansas City, MO: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 164 reports logged in Kansas City, MO.
  • This case is one of 127 Missouri reports filed in 2019.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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