CaseFireball2016

Lake of the Ozarks, MO, USA

4 of them, hovering, then also moving individually. One crossed the path where a other was hovering. ((anonymous report))

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.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-11
Where
Lake of the Ozarks, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
Slug
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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

  • Lake of the Ozarks, MO shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 112 reports came from Missouri in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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