UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2021

Springfield, MO, USA

I was driving home from work and saw this flying across Springfield MO at about 5pm. It hovered over downtown long enough for me to cat

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-10-18
Where
Springfield, MO, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
37.215, -93.298 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-springfield-mo-2021-b63fe7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 112 documented reports from Springfield, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 74 sightings in 2021.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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