CaseTeardrop1999
Kansas City, KS, USA
I saw what I intially thought to be a helium baloon rise up in a gradual fashion and hover at about 3-5000ft,it appeared to change shap
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-10
- Where
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 7 min.
- Geo
- 39.114, -94.627 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-kansas-city-ks-1999-a9c4f7
In context
- Kansas City, KS has 48 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 30 reports from Kansas.
- The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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