CaseCylinder2020
Independence, MO, USA
Huge UFO with brilliant lights flying low over Kansas City, Missouri
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-06
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-independence-mo-2020-3f5fe0
Wave
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
- Independence, MO shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 131 reports came from Missouri in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 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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