CaseCircle1956
Wichita, KS, USA
A witness in Wichita, Kansas reported a large circular light hovering, then a smaller light separating and shooting away rapidly while the larger light followed, over about two minutes in July 1956.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 135s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-07-15
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-2.5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wichita-ks-1956-fb85a0
In context
- One of 152 documented reports from Wichita, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 2 sightings in 1956.
- Circle sightings ran at 10% during the 1950s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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