Columbia, MO, USA
MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: I WAS IN MY BACK YARD, I LOOKED UP AND SAW A SILVER CIGAR SHAPE OBJECT.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-23
- Where
- Columbia, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.952, -92.334 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-columbia-mo-2008-1674a5
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 95 reports logged in Columbia, MO.
- This case is one of 107 Missouri reports filed in 2008.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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