CaseLight2009

Garden City, KS, USA

Bright Star Like Object

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-28
Where
Garden City, KS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.972, -100.873 · exact
Slug
light-over-garden-city-ks-2009-79b2f9
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…

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Garden City, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 44 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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