Topeka, KS, USA
UFO OVER TOPEKA East Topeka, Kansas July 19, 2018 / 8:30 to 9:30 PM , After a storm blew through after three NOAA WARNINGS a Thunderst
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-19
- Where
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.048, -95.678 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-topeka-ks-2018-1d555f
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 63 documented reports from Topeka, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 31 sightings in 2018.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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