Columbia, MO, USA
Three bright lights illuminating from behind clouds darting in irregular patterns at very high speed... also hovering and circling.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-25
- Where
- Columbia, MO, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 38.952, -92.334 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-columbia-mo-2009-1fc6a3
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…
Local cluster
April 2009 was a busy month for Columbia, MO: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 95 reports logged in Columbia, MO.
- This case is one of 91 Missouri reports filed in 2009.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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