Independence, MO, USA
Noticed to high left in sky what appeared first to be a bright star. ((anonymous report))
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-16
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2.5 hours
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-independence-mo-2017-df7338
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 112 Missouri reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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