CaseTeardrop2004

Swiss, MO, USA

Tailless elongated comet visable for 30 or so minutes in the daylight to dusk.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-11-07
Where
Swiss, MO, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
38.563, -91.471 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-swiss-mo-2004-7483bb
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…

In context

  • Swiss, MO has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 80 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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