CaseSphere1996
St. Joseph, MO, USA
Young nurse sees bizarre white, illuminated sphere hovering above treeline to west of hospital. Obj. suddenly turns green, disappears.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-08
- Where
- St. Joseph, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 39.769, -94.847 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-st-joseph-mo-1996-a850f5
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from St. Joseph, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 23 sightings in 1996.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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