CaseCircle2015

Independence, MO, USA

Bright ball of light East of Independence, Mo. ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-04-11
Where
Independence, MO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
39.091, -94.416 · exact
Slug
circle-over-independence-mo-2015-2f6f75
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 59 documented reports from Independence, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 101 sightings in 2015.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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