CaseLight2020

Topeka, KS, USA

Me (a middle school student) and my dad (who drives my library's book mobile) saw an orb shaped object the color of Venus in the sky mo

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-06
Where
Topeka, KS, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
~3 minutes
Geo
39.048, -95.678 · exact
Slug
light-over-topeka-ks-2020-3a77c8
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

  • Topeka, KS has 63 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 71 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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