CaseSphere2002
Manhattan (Near), KS, USA
Sphereical object, reddish, low in the western sky 10:23 pm
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-31
- Where
- Manhattan (Near), KS, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 -3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.184, -96.572 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-manhattan-near-ks-2002-c310b7
In context
- Manhattan (Near), KS has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 25 reports from Kansas.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.