Wichita, KS, USA
A brown round shape falling straight down from the sky. Fell straight down with a white vapor trail behind it. I was driving and l
Report quality: High73/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-16
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-wichita-ks-2017-9ea0b2
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Wichita, KS reports filed in February 2017.
In context
- Wichita, KS shows up 152 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Kansas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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