Paola, KS, USA
Im sitting by my window smoking and happen to notice that im seeing an oddly number of lights here lately some go some stay but noticed
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-09
- Where
- Paola, KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 38.572, -94.879 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-paola-ks-2017-f9684d
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
- Paola, KS has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 51 reports from Kansas.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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