CaseTeardrop2009

Kansas City, MO, USA

On 2/6/9 I saw a very fast moving black object with a rounded front and small tail in the sky. It disappeared behind a cloud.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-06
Where
Kansas City, MO, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
39.100, -94.579 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-kansas-city-mo-2009-3af3d8
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

  • Kansas City, MO shows up 164 times across the archive.
  • 91 reports came from Missouri in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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