Light over Olathe, KS
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The report, as filed
Two lights in the night sky flying in apparent formation.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-04-26 → 2005-05-13
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July 28, 2023 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Olathe, KS
Contrail looking object was moving west to east in north sky it never dissipated and was about 1/8 mile long. It was pacing the speed of the satellite and moved east out of sight in about 20 seconds it was white or light gray. I've never seen a contrail actually stay formed and also move. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Possible]
June 11, 2022 · 8:51 PM · LIGHT
Olathe, KS
There were severe storms present to the north and west. I was looking at the clearing in the heavy clouds and fixed on a particular area of scud appearing in the clearing at around 300 degrees WNW. In the clear area of the sky, a small red light appeared and just hung for about five seconds. My wife joined me and had her phone ready to take pictures of the strange "orange/green" hue of the sky. She found it when I pointed it out and switched to video right about the time it started moving and followed it moving WSW. It leaves the screen at about 220-230 degrees. (I am an amateur astrophotographer, so I have the cardinal directions basically memorized from my front and back decks). The video is of strange quality - as the color was red live, and I saw nothing trailing with the naked eye. It appears white in the video. I was an F/A-18A and TWA Avionics technician many years ago for about a decade and I photograph air shows. I rarely see aircraft move that fast in civilian airspaces and there was no sound (which could have been due to winds aloft). I went through the house to the back deck but saw nothing. The clouds were much thicker and it took about 7-10 seconds to get back there and onto the deck.
November 26, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Olathe, KS
Driving home from work and saw one fireball. Watched for about a minute and it disappeared. Drove home about a minute away and looked up again at there were two. One of the fireballs was faster then the other. Ran in to get wife to see and one had disappeared. So we watched one for about 30 seconds it disappeared.
April 5, 2020 · 11:20 PM
Olathe, KS
Two extremely bright light flashes were visible in the dark - illuminating from the ground up. One followed the other each lasting less than a second but with about a 4 second interval. This was not lightening - and I double checked the NOAA weather site - NO LIGHTENING WAS IN THE AREA. THE LIGHT WAS SO BRIGHT IT ILLUMINATED ABOUT 1/5THOF THE SKY
March 11, 2020 · 9:13 PM · CHEVRON
Olathe, KS
Absolutely incredible. There is another similar report to this one from Olathe a couple months back. Chevron shape, front half was gray and reflective (a sheen or reflection), back half was very dark. Line straight thru the middle, following the path of the wings at the same angle of each. No lights. Maybe 500 to 1000 ft above. Perfectly quiet. Turned rapidly. We both knew what we were seeing as soon as it was in the sky above us. It appeared as if it came out of a mist or clouds. Much like the previous reports on this site, it's almost like it knew it was being seen. It disappeared AS it turned. It was breathtaking but now that I've seen one I could see it being government just as much as it could be aliens. Upon viewing, it felt "real", very high tech tech, it didn't "feel" sci-fi.
March 6, 2020 · 7:43 PM · LIGHT
Olathe, KS
Just got home from getting food looked up at Venus because it’s super bright tonight and saw what I thought might be a satellite moving but more lights kept appearing my son and I watched for a second then he ran inside and got the family they came out and saw exactly what we were seeing the lights traveled across the sky in a straight line a total of 6 lights/crafts traveling across the sky then 2 more lights came out of two different lights and fell into formation. So it became 8 lights in a straight line that traveled most of the way across the sky then just disappeared they made no sound and the lights were constant tell they vanished