CaseLight1999
Independence, MO, USA
I was standing on the front lawn about 9:55 PM central time when a bright light caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I turn
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-15
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-independence-mo-1999-651b08
In context
- Independence, MO shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 81 reports came from Missouri in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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