Wichita, KS, USA
It was 5 fiery red balls of light shaped in a triangle. They slowly came on amd was very bright. Lasted around 5 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-17
- Where
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.692, -97.338 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-wichita-ks-2013-b70829
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
- Wichita, KS has 152 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 55 reports from Kansas.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.