MUFON’s Margie Kay on Kansas City’s “UFO Flap” … and a reporter’s liver!

Right now, Kansas City’s deep in a UFO Flap.

That term comes from Margie Kay, the metro’s go-to resource on all things paranormal. She’s the section director of Kansas City for the Kansas City chapter of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. She also heads up the non-profit Quest Investigation Group, which, among other things, investigates missing persons cases using what Kay describes as her psychic abilities. (Kay reports having helped locate more than 30 missing persons in the past.)

I met Kay as I reported on Stan Romanek for this week’s cover story. All I kept asking about is UFOs.

“Normally we get one sighting report a month, and most of those can be explained by natural phenomena such as a planet, plane or satellite,” Kay says. “Many of the recent reports are of large objects, and some are close encounters. I’m getting one or two reports per day now!”

Kay dates the sightings back to December 31, 2008, when a photographer spotted a fiery ball near Warrensburg. One late July sighting that especially excites Kay.

“I received a call about a huge 60 feet or larger diameter glowing sphere or craft that hoovered 100 feet or less above a policeman’s house in Gladstone.

“He said he was mesmerized, and couldn’t move even though he wanted to go for his gun. The man had an hour of missing time. Three days later, a professor saw the same type of object very close above his car in a different part of the state.”

The metro’s UFO of choice: orange spheres. Kay priovided The Pitch with illustrations made by witnesses.