Kansas UFO Sightings in 2001

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Bright light belived to be a comet or metior. a bright light. it looked like a star except it was moving quite fast.

it wasn't an airplane because we heard no engines. We belive that the craft soon crashed when it was out of our site. we were on a hill and it went below a house and we thought it had crashed.

it wasn't a satilite because it was to bright and it wasn't a star because it moved to fast. the only thing that we could come up with is that it was a comet or metior. It was very clear night and just after sundown.

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8 to 10 lights moving across the sky followed by streams of light of changing color 8 to 10 lights moving across the sky followed by streams of light of changing color. Direction of travel was northeast. There seemed to have been a few lights that where in the lead which didn't have the trailing tails of light.

((NUFORC Note: Wittness remains anonymous. We wonder whether the report addresses the dramatic re-entry event of space debris on Saturday, 01DE01 which was reported to NUFORC from many points in the midwest. Those fragments were moving to the northeast, as well, and the event occurred at approximately 2230 hrs.

on that night. We have taken the liberty of altering the date here. PD)).

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Formation of 18 to 20 bright objects leaving contrails in Wichita Kansas An entire formation (18 to 20 objects) of very "hot" streaking objects moved accross the sky fron our location moving from southwest to northeast. The "formation was led by two very bright lights leaving streakish orange/yellow contrails. The balance of the objects (each leaving an orange very long very bright contrail) followed.

The only description I can thing of to descrinbe the formation was like an almost dry paint brush run accross a wall. The number of objects tended to decrease as they proceded northeast from this location in Southwest Wichita Kansas. ((NUFORC Note: We believe the correct date of the incident is 01DE01.

We have amended the date here. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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We saw an object made up of streaming light that was approximately 1 1/2 miles long that made no sound. It was basically 3 streams of light that were blue in color. Two streams were originating from the cylindrical objects.

Within the light streams were gold looking objects that on first observation looked like sparks. Intermixed within the sparks and blue rivers of light were many round shapes which were in reds and greens. These objects held formation.

The blue streams of light appeared to be approx.1/2 mi long though it was difficult to judge the size as it may have been very large and far away even thought it appreared to be very low and close. The whole thing was humongous.

I guessed it to be 1 1/2 mile total length and moving at a very high rate of speed. There was absolute silence as it glided through a cloudless sky. This was preceded by two small light sources that looked like the eyes of the craft.

We were unable to make out any structure and could only clearly see the streams of light. The light coming from "the eyes" was very contained and had no light between them and the craft, and the light source did not create a beam. They appeared to be totally independent.

There appeared to be shades of red, green and blue lights around the cylindrical objects that we could see. When we switched off the headlights and engine to the car, it flashed a green light in our direction. Fifteen minutes prior to this sighting, we had noticed a light in the sky falling straight down towards the earth that we thought was a meteor.

We were just East and South of Winfied by Strother Field (approx. 10 miles out) when we saw this. We drove into Winfield, and were about 5 miles North of Winfield when we turned to the West and had gone about a mile down a county road when we saw this craft.

It came from the Southwest, almost out of no where and was going very rapidly to the Northeast. From the inside of the car, the view filled the whole windshield. At first it appeared to be 2 B1B's Bombers flying in very close and low formation.

I got out of the car because I could not believe what I was seeing and realized there was no sound. We watched intently for the next few minutes until it just disappeared behind some trees. We headed in the general direction and never caught sight of it again.

We tried to use our cell phone but had a huge echo and a lot of static. I am a recently retired Numerical Control Programmer for Boeing aircraft in the tool engineering department. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

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Streaking firework-type lights going south to north over western Olathe KS It looked like fireworks streaking sideways from south to north in the western sky. We thought it was a meteor shower but it was going too slow. I thought maybe something exploded and the fuel was on fire.

There were many specks of light, like a firework. There were two main lights ahead of the rest. Then the lights all winked out.

I don't know if it was a spaceship but it was definitely an unidentified flying object! ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Streaking, Slashing, formation of lights going slowly across sky Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001. 10:20 Central.

West of Olathe, Kansas. Driving west on 135th Street just opposite Lake Olathe. Looking west, strings of light appeared from SW horizon.

color-reddish to orange. I would estimate a 55 degree angle from the western horizon and the objects covered about 10-15 degrees vertically.The objects were two (or three) strings (possibly "slashes", or a combination of strings and slashes) of very bright light.

It was as if it was a meteor but it was not. The object(s) covered about 1/3 of the sky. It was very clear and the full moon was to our back.

The object proceded NNE in the sky toward Kansas City and disappeared over the horizon. There was NO sound.It was difficult to tell the distance.

However there were at least two, possibly three blinking lights (as in aircraft) escorting the object. The blinking lights were small to indicate a good distance. If this is the case, the object(s were HUGH.

It could have been one object trailing strings of lights, or a perimeter of lights. From the angle we viewed the object it was hard to tell. They were very bright and could have been connected.

The object did not "burn" as in a meteor but trailed away from direction of movement. We stopped the car and got out to view this phenomenom. Again, NO SOUND.

We have seen meteors, and images of reentering space junk. This was NOT like that at all. The two main trails of lights traveled parallel to one another.

One trail consited of two brighter trails and could have been a third trail. It was close to the other trail. We originally thought it was an airplane having difficulty but this was not the case.

Very unusual and awsome! ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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A formation of approx. 11 lights Aat 10:10pm I was traveling east on highway k-10 near the intersection of the Wakarusa exit. I was surpriced by number of green lights 7 to 11 thatwere traveling west.

Three of these sources of lights were radiating a beam of light much as those projected by aircrafts. The objects turned north, by now they were traveling in an horizontal direction and all of them appeared like a green light with an orange tail. After passing in front of me and traveling a distance os approx.

2 to 3 miles they disappeared from the sky. I called the local police department and found out that they were numerous reports of people seeing these lights. I entered this site to see if other people reported seeing the same.

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Lights over I-70 in Western Kansas While driving east on I-70, just east of Goodland, Kansas, Dec. 1st around 9:45 pm, I suddenly noticed a large long light in the sky. It was south of the freeway, about 30 degrees above the horizon, and about 30 degrees to my right ( 0 degrees being directly ahead of me).

I'd noticed it out of my upper right peripheral vision. At first, I thought it might be a long strip of moonlight shining from behind clouds. But as I looked, I could see a line of separate white lights (more distinct towards the front).

Underneath it, towards the front, and perfectly parralel to it, was another line of lights about 1/3 the length of the top line. And this is what first jarred me out of the thought that it might have been moonlight : these lines of lights were ruler-straight. Although I could hardly process it, I realized I was looking at some kind of HUGE mechanical object.

It appeared to be VERY long and rather flattish. I say this because the sky seemed darker above and below the lines of lights (i.e.

it appeared a lot longer than it was high). I cannot tell you how far away or how high it was, since I do not possess this skill. However, it was obviously at plane-flying height, so to speak, and not way out 'in the atmosphere'.

At any rate, as I watched it, I realized it was moving, apparently north and perpendicular to the the freeway. It traveled very slowly, parralel to the horizon, and straight across the sky. As I watched, it came into view directly in front of me, above the freeway.

This thing was truely huge. I could barely process what I was seeing, and I can only tell you that this thing looked like some kind of giant moving complex. Although I still hesitate to utter it, the words 'space station' did come to mind.

It continued to move north. At about 30 degrees to my left, north of the freeway, I noticed it was angling downward. At this point, I strained to keep it in view.

It appeared to me that the lights went out, from the back to the front, until all I could see was one peachy-pink colored light, which then dissappeared at about 15 degrees above the horizon. I called 911 and got a Goodland operator. I told her what I had seen and from where.

She related that 4 other calls had come in. The next day, I described the event to a couple of people in Kansas City who each told me they'd seen a report on CNN. One person told me it was being explained as a Russian 'spacestation' which had re-entered the atmosphere, broken apart, nothing to worry about, folks.

I myself watched the local Kansas City news at 10 pm that night and heard it explained as a Russian 'rocket' re-entering earth's atmosphere, complete with an image of what appeared to me to be a couple of meteors - 'shooting stars'. This image was NOTHING like what I witnessed. As I had told the 911 operator when she'd asked me if perhaps what I'd seen might have been a comet or 'space junk', I'd replied, 'definately NOT' - not unless objects falling to earth are suddenly defying the laws of gravity, and traveling in slow horizontal trajectories across the sky.

Additionally, since when does a Russian anything fall to earth without further comment or inquiry? I will add that on my return trip to Colorado through Kansas 4 days later, I called the 911 operator back, as I'd said I would. She told me that a total of 7 calls had come in to her; one from a sheriff, 2 from deputies, 3 from local rural citizens, and mine. I also stopped in Goodland to see if any locals were talking about it.

At a convenience store, I asked the cashier (40-ish) if he'd heard anyone talking about the 'lights' in the sky the previous Saturday night. Apparently that night, a man had rushed into his store, sworn he was neither drunk nor taking drugs, and had told the cashier that as he'd been driving to Colorado, west on I-70, he and another driver had both stopped their cars on the freeway owing to what they were seeing in the sky. The only description this casheir relayed to me was that the man had said there was a large light underneath this thing.

When the cashier had suggested that maybe it could have been a blimp, the man had said 'no way', as this thing was much bigger than that. Then I told him what I saw. During my conversation with him, I turned to another man standing behind me in the store who'd been listening in.

Judging from the somewhat frozen look on his face (40's, clean cut, athletic looking), I ventured to ask him if he'd seen 'it'. He nodded wordlessly, 'yes'. I asked him if he thought it was a meteor or some 'space junk', and he said, absolutely not.

He had been in Goodland at the time and I asked him to describe what he saw. He said, 'It was just like you said. It was big, moving slowly and horizontally across the sky'.

He left shortly after. I have subsequently spoken at some length to the sheriff mentioned by the 911 operator. He had seen 'it' from 20 or so miles south of where I had been at around the same time.

He described seeing brightly colored lights traveling parralel to the horizon across the sky, adding it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. He tried to take a poloroid, but only nearby lights on the ground were visible in the picture. I asked him if he thought it was a meteor or 'space junk', and he'd said no, citing the same reason - its slow, horizontal movementl.

He asked me, 'how big do you think it was? A mile long.?' I told him I am unable to judge, but that like him, what I had seen was very large. He said 'it' had been moving from north to south.

We discussed this discrepancy in our 'sitings', yet agreed it was unlikely that these were 2 entirely unrelated events, since we'd both seen it around the same time. Anyway, that's my story. I am a professional woman in my mid 40's with no interest in UFO's.

Until now, anyway.… ((NUFORC Note: Please see other reports for 01DE01. Our suspicion is that the event was, in fact, a re-entry event.

PD)).

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Unknown, big, spectacular explosion over Wellsville , KS. DEC 1, 2001. My Daughter(name and infrormation listed below)was sceared to death by a big explosion in the sky over Wellsville,Kansas.

Something, seeming big, blew up high in the sky. Multiple (8 to 10) flamelike streaks flew in all directions. Nothing seemed to hit the ground.

It was pretty spectacular. Much, much bigger and brighter then anything during the recent meteor shower. Other cars on K 68 Highway stopped to watch.

She called 911 within 1 minute of the explosion, but 911 said it was just shooting stars. Heard they saw it at the Louisburg Observatory(18 miles east) and maybe got pictures. She has since heard rummors that it was reintering Russian space junk.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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a huge flotilla of 50-200 glowing objects moving in formation A sight to boggle the mind, the flotilla appeared in the southwest sky, travelling to the northwest at moderate speed in formation of 50-200 by various accounts. The craft appeared to emit a surrounding glow and emitted long tail plumes which also glowed. Some craft were seen as solid (not blinking) yellow lights that traveled in formation.

The speed was greater than helicopters and no sounds were heard to be emitted by the flotilla. I seriously have no idea what this flotilla of craft could have been, but there were a lot and it was spectacular and many people saw the event. Whatever it was, it was big, as the lights stretched across half of the sky before fading.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Light Formation over Kansas City I'm hesitant to report this, as I'm not completely convinced the objects we saw weren't conventional aircraft (helicopters), but am reporting it for confirmation in case someone else does as well. Last night at 10:20 PM I was carrying groceries in from the car when I noticed several bright points of light in the sky overhead that appeared to be moving in a westward direction towards me. As there is a lot of conventional air traffic overhead at night I didn't pay much attention at first until I noticed that they seemed to be flying in formation; not a V pattern or anything like that (they were all over the sky in no pattern), but in tandem with each other (they maintained roughly the same distance from each other as they crossed the sky).

That night was very cold and the wind was blowing from the west. There was also heavy cloud cover that frequently obscured the lights for 15-20 seconds (at times I could not see all of them at the same time, and by the end of the incident cloud cover had thickened to obscure all of the lights). At first I thought they were just stars, as the moving clouds gave the appearance of the movement of stationary objects behind them, and indeed some of them were (as I watched closely I noticed that they didn't really move).

However, even as the clouds moved I could see some lights that seemed to move while others didn't, and at least three of the seven lights I saw moved across the entire sky from the far horizon to directly above the eaves of my townhouse where they were finally obscured. When I first saw them it looked strange enough that I called into the house for my girlfriend to come out and see them also (approximately 10:23). As we watched I tried to verify that the lights were actually moving by looking at them and a stationary object overhead and visually measuring the distance between them.

At first I used the moon, as it was the only stationary object close enough in sight, but later I was able to use the eaves of the house as well. The objects looked like large, very bright stars (single blue-white lights just like stars but they didn't twinkle or blink; no red or green lights were visable at any time). They slowly moved across the sky, from east to west against the very strong (at least at ground and cloud level) wind, and at times seemed to change speed.

As they got closer to directly overhead, the lights stopped and hovered in place for 2-3 minutes before starting to move again in the same direction, then quickly disappeared behind a very thick cloudbank and were obscured completely. As it was very cold with the wind chill and I was in short sleeves and still holding 25 pounds of frozen chickens and bottled water I decided not to wait and see if they were still there when the clouds cleared; the cloud cover was very thick by then and it didn't look like it was going to break anytime in the next several minutes. My girlfriend and I went through the townhouse and she went out the back door to see if they were visable, but said they weren't (the clouds were too thick).

I went into the kitchen, where the clock said 10:37; earlier I had just come out of the kitchen and was going back to the car when I saw the lights which is how I knew it was 10:20. As I mentioned, I am hesitant to report this as nothing happened which would preclude an optical illusion (stars and moving clouds) and some conventional aircraft (helicopters) being responsible for the incident. However, it seemed strange that so many craft (helicopters or otherwise) would be moving so slowly in apparent formation over Kansas City against a very strong wind at that time of night, and that none of them looked like anything more than very bright stars.

I have reported one other incident, a non-incident actually in Lawrence where a strange appearing (but conventional) aircraft flew overhead similar to an earlier report from the same area in Lawrence.

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Six sphres in offset triangular formation traveling northeast in Kansas on Nov. 1st 2001 Six sphere like craft traveling at unrealistic speed,heading southwest in a triangular formation with one lead craft o o o o o o No visible lights or sounds,I kind of saw the reflections from the moon,my wife saw a pinkish-white color,but for sure no lights.We probably wouldn't have been able to see them if it wasn't for the low thick clouds,and the moon being so bright.

That was the reason I was looking up at the time,it was a terrific looking sky,worth looking up. NO BULL!! THESE THINGS WERE COOKIN !! and they weren't no birds. ((NUFORC Note: Witness remains partially anonymous.

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fast moving v shaped dull white object over Lawrence Kansas v shaped no lights, no sound looked like ghost going across sky at a very fast speed. It was higher than the shooting star that passed under it. It was a dull white color.

We have seen this three time before about the same time of year and around the same time of night.

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A disc was observed flying level and then tilting on its edge over and over again. September 13,001 This morning while traveling north through the country in Linn County, Kansas at 10:50 Central Time, I observed an object in the sky. The sky was clear and there was little or no wind.

Another item worth noting is that because of the World Trade Building attack there was no air traffic. This item was north west of me and looked to be a mile away. The item was silver in color and seemed to be disc shaped.

I watched this item for about five minutes. During this time the item would fly level and then turn on edge. It did this many times.

When it would turn on edge the sun would shine off of it and I could tell that it was disc shaped. I could hear no sound. For a while it looked like the item was not moving but finally it moved off in a north west direction.

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UFO over Kansas City.What is it?? I was walking my dog, a very clear night(you could see the stars(everywhere in the sky)). My dog was sniffing at the sky, so I looked up.

I saw a silver egg-like (UFO) that was about 100 feet in the air and was silent. It was flying in a south-west direction. There were no lights, but it reflected light, signs, and even a light from a radio tower it went bye.

It looked almost exactly like the Bedhampton UFO that was video taped. It looked like the UFO from Flight of the Navagator, but without the lines.

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looked like cigar on a still frame from the weather cam. i saw it on a weather cam out of wichiata kansas. ((NUFORC Note: Source is anonymous.

Paucity of information provided by witness. PD)).

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dont know???? let my dog out,thought i would follow and have a smoke,my daughter followed.went to my car out by the street looked up towards the sky to check things out there wer some storms tonight towards the north and south.Seen a plane heading west towards denver or maybe the springs.

out of my left eye i caught a movement there was a lightcoming from the south I estimated it was three to four times higher then the plane.And it was moving jack i called my daughter over who was playing with our dog.She couldnt believe it.

Sattelite? alien spacecraft? govt. test plane ? (in kansas,think not) dont know .The light continued north at a good rate of speed, it was like the plane i had previosly saw was crawling.

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Salina Kansas Meteor ? A bright ball of light like a Roman Candle came from the northeast of the City of Salina, KS, from approximately 10 degrees in height and bearing and flew on a nearly horizontal path to the southwest of the city. I lost sight of it over the tree line. If it impacted the earth I would place it somewhere in the area of the Smokey Hill Bombing Range or near Lindsborg or Marquette Kansas.

The object was about one third the size of a street light as viewed from a block away and a little more intense in brightness. The color was white/yellowish with a very small trail of "sparks" at times. There were several aircraft in holding patterns over the city at the time and it didn't look like it was much higher in altitude than they were.

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Two UFO's and a jet in pursuit. I was out playing catch with my dad at dusk, when I noticed a bright object, nearly due south of my house, appear very near & below the moon (within the diamater of the moon below the moon) in the sky. In appearance, it looked like a meteor or light reflecting off of a missile or the fusilage of a shiny airliner.

In this first object, there was a bright light at the front, and two smaller lights very close in a line behind (in reference to its direction of travel), which made it appear to be the tail of a meteor (but they did not change in relationship to the front light, so I've pretty much ruled that out). The lights were nearly the same color as the yellowish-red type of street light (high pressure sodium, I believe). There was no sound, nor was there a vapor trail.

The object traveled in a mostly west & slightly south direction. When the object reached approximately south-southwest of my house, the 3 lights appeared to move closer together, until you could only see 1 light. This 1 light appeared to grow *at least* 4 times brighter than the 3 lights combined.

It stayed bright for a period of time, maybe 10-15 seconds, then it dimmed to the brightness of the original light (the one in front without the 2 behind). It continued to move in the same mostly west, slightly south, direction until it faded out of sight (presumably from going further away). Just before the first object faded out completely, my dad looked at the spot where it appeared, just below the moon, & saw another object.

This second object was *identical* in appearance & motion, including having the 3 lights combine into one, grow bright, & continue west until fading out of sight. At a similar interval (just before the second object faded completely), the third object appeared. It was sighted just above & to the left of the moon & traveled in exactly the same direction & approximately the same speed as the first two objects (presumably it was in pursuit).

This third object was quite obviously a plane, as vapor trails and wings were evident. However, the leading edge glowed in 3 places a *bright* red, approximately the same hue as a bright red car, or a fresh cherry. I assume the bright red in front, was a reflection of the now set sun.

I am no expert in finding velocities of flying objects, but if all three were plane sized, I approximate their speed at around 5-600mph, & an altitude of 30,000 to 45,000 feet. At no time did any of the objects change speed or direction of flight. My very first impression of these objects was that they were planes that had the setting sun's light reflecting off of them.

But there were no vapor trails (except for the 3rd object), no strobe lights, no sound & no wings or tail (except the 3rd object, where we could clearly see wings). A few moments later an airliner flew directly overhead & it was very clear that this was an airplane, we could see the full length of the fusilage, the tail, both wings & a vapor trail. But the first two objects are very puzzling to us; they definitely fit the under the category of Unidentified Flying Objects.

If this description isn't detailed enough, or you would like me to make drawings of what I saw, I would be glad to answer any questions or send drawings if you contact me by phone, mail, or (preferably) e-mail.

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Object lands with Large, Bright, Blinking light. My mother,my Brothers and I, were driving from Alva Oklahoma, to Kingman Kansas, it was late at night, we were about half way between Medicine Lodge, Kansas and Kingman Kansas when we had seen an object glide across the street, it landed about a yard or so from the street in a field area. We could not see the object becouse of a large, bright, blinking blue light.

It was hypnotizing to me. My mother stopped the car and we looked at it for less than a min. more than 30 sec.

My mother then slammed on the gas and while we were driving away my mom said that she thinks that it was a real UFO. On our way we did see lots of blue blinking lights. I was mainly a secptic of UFOs as well as this incedent, until I was watching TV and there was a very simualar incendet that had happened to an old couple in England.

Now I Beleave In UFOs as well as the therory of UFOs in the bible, I have always been an athiest and UFOs would explain lots of the bibical incidents. ((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate. PD)).