Kansas City, MO, USA
Driving along Hwy. 35 N and saw an object right above us flying in the same direction we were driving. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor? 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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 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
- 2017-08-27
- Where
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.100, -94.579 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kansas-city-mo-2017-be7808
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- This is one of 164 reports logged in Kansas City, MO.
- This case is one of 112 Missouri reports filed in 2017.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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