UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Independence, KS, USA

Bright starshaped objects began moving at random, brightly illuminating and becoming 3 lights, with the other 2 the lesser lights

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: 9900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-16
Where
Independence, KS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2.5-3 hours
Geo
37.224, -95.708 · exact
Slug
light-over-independence-ks-2017-4fc62f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Independence, KS shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Kansas in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.