Topeka, KS, USA
Taking cloud picture saw movement above clouds and took photo, not realizing I had captured an object on photo.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-29
- Where
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 39.048, -95.678 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-topeka-ks-2017-60862b
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
- Topeka, KS shows up 63 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Kansas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.