UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Union, MO, USA

Three witnesses. While driving down Highway 50 East they noticed a big bright orange ball in the sky. It was bigger than the moon but

Report quality: High73/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1978-07-26
Where
Union, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.450, -91.008 · exact
Slug
light-over-union-mo-1978-87523b
Wave

Part of a wave

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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 1978 was a busy month for Union, MO: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Union, MO.
  • This case is one of 11 Missouri reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s 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.