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
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…
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 daysReport
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