Olathe, KS, USA
Atmospheric battle
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 (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-07
- Where
- Olathe, KS, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.881, -94.819 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-olathe-ks-2012-78ad19
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Olathe, KS in July 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Olathe, KS has 49 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 60 reports from Kansas.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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