CaseCylinder1998
Wichita, KS, USA
On lunch break, heading east in car. Stopped at light, saw object in distance above the horizon. An airliner was heading south, away fr
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-08
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-wichita-ks-1998-a77fe6
In context
- Wichita, KS shows up 152 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Kansas in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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