UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Lenexa, KS, USA

Very low ball of fire slowly floating over Kansas City metro area

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 70s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-07
Where
Lenexa, KS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
70 seconds
Geo
38.954, -94.734 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lenexa-ks-2012-6891fd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Lenexa, KS has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 60 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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