NUFORC Sighting 03885

Occurred: 1998-06-11 21:58 Local
Reported: 1998-06-11 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Kansas City, MO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Single white light, no flashing green, red or white light. Traveling from WNW to ESE. Followed about two minutes later by similar light, traveling in same direction.

At approximately 9:58 pm I went outside to investigate what at first sounded like thunder. There were approximately four loud booms. I looked up to see that the sky was cloudless. I told my roommate "thunder doesn't go boom, boom." While looking up I saw the first light, about the brightness of Venus, traveling from WNW to ESE. I thought it strange that there appeared to be only one light and no other blinking lights. There was no sound of a jet either. I ran in to get my binoculars but could only make out a vague, black silhouette whose shape was not readily apparent. I told my friend to come outside but by the time he made it out the object was out of sight below the tree line. As I was walking back to the house I looked and and saw another similar light. I said "Look another one." It traveled in the same direction, at the same speed. I got a good look at this one with the binoculars and saw no flashing lights, the vague, black silhoutte against the moonlit sky. I saw both lights for approximately 15 to 20 seconds each. They traveled in a straight line, again no sound that I could detect. At about 10:02 pm I hear two more explosions about twenty seconds apart. I have no idea what the loud booms were. Fireworks maybe, from nearby casinos. There was nothing on the local news to explain the loud booms. And, I have no reason to believe that they were associated with the flying objects. Just a strange coincidence.

Posted 1998-06-18

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