UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2009

Topeka, KS, USA

strange object in the sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-30
Where
Topeka, KS, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
just a couple seconds at
Geo
39.048, -95.678 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-topeka-ks-2009-40e415
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Topeka, KS has 63 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 44 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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