Independence, MO, USA
7 to 10 lights in the sky an hour before sunset. Way high in the sky moving really fast. First few lights were white followed by gree
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-04-09
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 secs
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-independence-mo-2010-3dbe81
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
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Independence, MO.
- This case is one of 118 Missouri reports filed in 2010.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.