Shawnee, KS, USA
We were heading south on Payne street and stopped at the stop sign. The object appeared from behind us and moved into our line of sight
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-16
- Where
- Shawnee, KS, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- 39.042, -94.720 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-shawnee-ks-2014-686321
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…
In context
- Shawnee, KS has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 70 reports from Kansas.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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