CaseCylinder2012

Nixa, MO, USA

I viewed a pill shaped object with no wing span moving at a high rate of speed. Covering the distance of horizon to horizon in seconds.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-28
Where
Nixa, MO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
37.043, -93.294 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-nixa-mo-2012-fd530e
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

  • Nixa, MO has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 177 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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