CaseOval1960
Wichita, KS, USA
In 1960, a witness in Wichita, Kansas, reported an oval-shaped object that made only a low humming sound, even as it took off, during a sighting lasting about 20 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-09-10
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 min.
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-wichita-ks-1960-846f4a
In context
- Wichita, KS shows up 152 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Kansas in 1960.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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