Light over Manhattan, KS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Manhattan Kansas, Boomerang like light and massive hang glider very high up without lights
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 2009-06-18 → 2009-07-05
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June 28, 2019 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Manhattan, KS
I was driving on K18 heading towards Scenic Drive with my husband, and I noticed 4 bright orange circles. 2 were on the left side of the sky, and they were in a straight vertical line, and then the other 2 were slightly south and in the same vertical position. I pulled over to look at them and one slowly blinked out of existence and then one by one so did the rest.
June 8, 2019 · 11:30 AM · LIGHT
Manhattan, KS
We were driving on I-70 back to Manhattan when I saw several orange lights in the sky that looked close by. They were so bright that they looked like they could have came from fireworks or an explosion of some kind, but it was illuminating the sky around it. The lights were in a disk-like formation and several more appeared between some of the lights. This honestly reminded me of the Phoenix Lights. There is Fort Riley near by, so I'm unsure if it was a military thing, but these lights were so close and not anywhere near Manhattan or the military base. These lights then began to descend down toward the ground while also vanishing like if someone turned off a light. By the time we got to Bill Snyder Highway, the lights were gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 4, 2016 · 1:25 AM · LIGHT
Manhattan, KS
It was about 1:25 a.m. Saturday, June 4, 2016, (this morning). I ventured outside with my husky following a thunderstorm. The night sky was filled with stars! To the south, a town or two away, was lightening in the distant clouds, but no streaks of lightning; no jagged lines or ground contact--just electricity lighting up that section of clouds. Looking in that direction and a bit to the east, in a southerly neighbor’s yard, suddenly a flash of light appeared by the tree top. Perfectly round, small, bright. At first, I thought it was a firefly, yet it didn’t zigzag like a firefly; it merely blinked for a moment. Then a second one directly next to it appeared to the right. The two lights shone simultaneously about a yard apart, in a straight line, then disappeared. I turned and walked a few feet to the west, admiring the planets, and constellations. Such a clear sky! A couple of planets, and so many stars! I had a clear view of the big dipper. Within seconds of facing due west, the big dipper to my right and a bit north, a small, round, bright white light appeared much higher in the atmosphere. It was identical in size and brightness to the first two and seemed to appear from behind a different neighbor’s tree, moving north along the sky, much higher in the atmosphere, silently;. This light appeared like a twinkling star,as did the first two, then disappeared. Yet it reappeared much further along its straight-lined path to the north, much higher in the Earth's atmosphere. The light intermittently blinked it’s way across the sky rapidly moving northerly then disappeared out of sight in the northern sky. There were no sounds for any of the lights; no plane noises nearby. None of the lights moved as comets would, or planes, or fireflies. The experience felt soothing, magical, and precious.
September 25, 2014 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Manhattan, KS
I was laying down in my backyard when I saw 5 orange V's gliding above. I thought it was an airplane because of the formation they were in but all three moved back and forth in a serpentine manner, and it was a constant glow. They went completely across my field of view in a matter of minutes. When they were overhead I could distinctively see the orange V that looked like lights on the bottom of a triangle shape ship. After they were no longer visible I went inside to tell my friends. About 10-15 minutes later I went back out to see a military helicopter (flashing lights as apposed to the solid orange) flying the same area I last saw the UFO's. Since there is a base at Fort Riley helicopters are common but I've never seen them behave like this.
December 26, 2013 · 5:43 PM · FIREBALL
Manhattan, KS
North bound fireball in Thursday evening twilight sky.
October 28, 2008 · 6:50 PM · CHANGING
Manhattan, KS
Six bright yellow lights in kite, backward "L" and diamond formations