Seneca, KS, USA
Star in the sky that moved. An airplane would move in a straight line. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of star, we believe. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-01-25
- Where
- Seneca, KS, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.834, -96.064 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-seneca-ks-2016-dff3e4
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
- Seneca, KS has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 49 reports from Kansas.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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