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
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
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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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