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
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
- 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
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
- 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 daysReport
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