Wichita, KS, USA
There was a flashing light that was to fast and bright to be a star and it was moving around at different speeds.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-13
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 minutes (so far)
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-wichita-ks-2017-9e8c32
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
- One of 152 documented reports from Wichita, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Kansas logged 51 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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