Festus, MO, USA
Witnesses observed and photographed a silver disc-shaped object which maneuvered at high speed after hovering.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-10
- Where
- Festus, MO, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.221, -90.396 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-festus-mo-2021-f423b0
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
- Festus, MO has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 74 reports from Missouri.
- The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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