Drake, MO, USA
A bright flash or blink was observed in several locations in the night sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-27
- Where
- Drake, MO, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 20 sec
- Geo
- 38.468, -91.465 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-drake-mo-2011-453edb
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
- Drake, MO has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 139 reports from Missouri.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.