Topeka, KS, USA
it was changing colors, like most of the rainbow colors, not flashing just changing but the intensity ... same.
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: 14s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-15
- Where
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 12-15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.048, -95.678 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-topeka-ks-1977-2cd67f
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 63 reports logged in Topeka, KS.
- This case is one of 1 Kansas reports filed in 1977.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.