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Kansas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1 UFO sighting reports in Kansas from 1988 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "chevron" (1 reports, 100.00% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 100.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 100.00% of total).
- 09/14/88 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 100.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1 reports, 100.00% of total).
Kansas UFO Sighting Reports in 1988
This is a sampling of 20 Kansas UFO reports from 1988, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
driving east on bridge, spot multicolored object with sparkling trail, went dark after viewing, glided silently across night sky ive been holding on to this experience for over 33 years. My mother and I were driving across the i-35 bridge overpass in olathe ks, in 1988, around 9:15pm.,sept.
My mother looked to the south nightsky and said "wow.a falling star, look'. About an estimated 100-120 yards away, up in sky, was what appeared to be a comet falling in a slow,gliding descent, with multicolored , sparkling trail behind it.
Right after I said "look at the sparkling colors in the trail" the object went completely dark. We could make out a vauge black cresent shape against the night sky gliding slowly eastbound. My mother said "lets see if we can follow its path, to see what it is" my mother turned onto clairborne southbound, until we were on 151st street, then turned onto 151st eastbound (past 151st there is nothing but country roads and empty land) THIS NEXT PART IS WHY IVE BEEN AFRAID TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE UNTIL NOW.
Upom approaching the turning lane to head off 151st, there was a yellow hatchback car, sitting in our turning lane, with its lights off. My mom said "why is this car sitting, in the turning lane?" she pulled up behind the car and stopped, upon doing so, an asian man got out of the drivers side was wearing jeans, flannel shirt, with one of those puffy vests over it, that were popular in the 80s. And he walked over to my moms driver side and asked "what are you guys doing?" my mom told him what we saw and that we were trying to follow it.
The guy said "its probably nothing" and then proceeded to get back in his car. My mother said nothing and proceeded to turn northbound onto blackbob rd away from 151st. Est 15 seconds passed until we spoke and I said "why didn’t you ask him WTH he was doing sitting in the turning lane?" my mom said "I don’t know!" she said "when he was talking to us, did you have a dream like feeling?" I said "yes!" we were both so spooked, we never told anybody and my mom went to her grave never discussing it again.
The olathe daily news, the next morning, had a picture of this sparkling object in the paper calling it a comet. Apparently someone else saw it and snapped a photo. That’s the experience and I feel better now finally telling someone.
If you need any further info, you can call me at (deleted) regards.
Kansas UFO Sightings From 1988 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 1988 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| September | 1 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 1988 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
| Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 1988 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
| Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| 09/14/88 | 1 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 1988 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
| Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
All Kansas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1988
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Kansas, in 1988
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| olathe | 1 UFO Reports | olathe UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kansas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kansas.