CaseCylinder2018

Moscow, MO, USA

He first thought it was a blimp. It was gray and white in color and then started to move left to right very quickly.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-06-19
Where
Moscow, MO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Geo
39.166, -94.542 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-moscow-mo-2018-39c5fc
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 1 documented reports from Moscow, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 62 sightings in 2018.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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