Columbia, MO, USA
I was at my house and looked up and saw, at a low altitude, what appeared to be only a fuselage of a plane.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-04
- Where
- Columbia, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.952, -92.334 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-columbia-mo-2006-f69d53
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Columbia, MO reports filed in July 2006.
In context
- Columbia, MO shows up 95 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Missouri in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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