UFOMYST
CaseCone2008

Kansas City, MO, USA

Unknown "orange" object seen floating above Kansas City

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-20
Where
Kansas City, MO, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.100, -94.579 · exact
Slug
cone-over-kansas-city-mo-2008-71e5d6
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 164 documented reports from Kansas City, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 107 sightings in 2008.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.