CaseDisk1952

Kansas City, MO, USA

Witnesses in Kansas City, Missouri reported multiple disk-shaped objects flying in formation in broad daylight for about 90 seconds in October 1952.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (148 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-10-01
Where
Kansas City, MO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
90 sec.
Geo
39.100, -94.579 · exact
Slug
disk-over-kansas-city-mo-1952-63c0cf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

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    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

In context

  • Kansas City, MO shows up 164 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Missouri in 1952.
  • In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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