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Orange Orbs and Multiple Sightings Perplex Kansas City MUFON
July 6, 2009 Kansas City, Missouri
The increase in UFO sightings in the greater Kansas City area has State Section Director for Kansas City Margie Kay and other field investigators perplexed. “We are receiving one or two reports per day now instead of the usual one a month,” says Kay. Since January 1 sightings have increased steadily, with reports coming in faster than the field investigators can handle them. In the past two weeks Kansas City MUFON has recorded three reports of silver cigar-shaped objects over Independence from separate witnesses, multiple bright orange or white orbs or spheres, orange tear-drop shapes, several silver saucer shapes, rectangular objects, many white lights and star-like objects, and chevron shaped craft. Some of the objects have appeared multiple times to the same witnesses over several weeks, and in several cases, witnesses report seeing a separate small orange or red sphere ejected from a larger craft.
Margie said “The strange thing is that we can usually attribute most of the UFO reports we get to planets or man-made craft, but the sheer number of sightings and strangeness of the recent cases is highly unusual.” Kay thinks that its time to call this a UFO “Flap.”
Following are the latest sighting reports:
07/03/09: A man said that he and a friend saw a large orange glowing sphere in the Northern sky traveling from West to East towards Sedalia on Highway 50 just outside Lee's Summit, The object was at tree-top height and appeared to be approximately 200 yards from his vehicle. It seemed to follow along at the same speed as his car for about 20 minutes, then took off at a high rate of speed towards the Northeast and disappeared.
07/04/09: While watching
fireworks Saturday evening in Independence, Missouri 32 witnesses
saw two orange glowing spheres traveling from North to South. One
sphere was following another and the one behind was slightly larger
and brighter. The objects move smoothly in a slight wave motion at
approximately 30 MPH estimated at 60 feet off the ground at treetop
height. The entire group of witnesses were awestruck.
07/05/09: A couple was driving north on 435 about four miles southeast of Kansas City International Airport. “We saw several planes around the area then we noticed an orange orb flying low basically following interstate 435 toward the southeast in the opposite direction of us. There were 4 of us in the car that all witnessed and watched this. We watched it for about 2 minutes until it was too far south to see it. There was a plane that flew about 1,000 feet right above the orb so you could distinctly tell the difference between a blinking plane and this orange orb. The orb was flying slow, I would guess around 30 mph and about 100' to 200' above the ground. It was flying in a very straight line not erratic at all.”
MUFON encourages people to report sightings, no matter how trivial they may seem. This is the only way that we can gain more understanding of the UFO phenomena, says Kay. Sighting reports take about 15 minutes to complete depending on details, and can be made a www.mufon.com. Meetings and events in Missouri are listed at www.missourimufon.org. Contact Margie Kay at 816-833-1602.
Newspaper Articles:
Warrensburg Daily Star Journal Article: June 28 on sightings in Warrensburg http://www.dailystarjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=5194
T.V. Coverage:
Link to Chanel 9 Interview June 11, 2009:
Article: http://www.kmbc.com/news/19731234/detail.html
Examiner.com articles by Roger Marsh:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m7d8-UFOS-what-happened-this-July-4th-weekend
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