CaseSphere2011

Ottawa, KS, USA

Ball of fire

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (12 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-30
Where
Ottawa, KS, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 sec
Geo
38.616, -95.268 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-ottawa-ks-2011-c764eb
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

  • One of 5 documented reports from Ottawa, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 43 sightings in 2011.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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