Desoto, MO, USA
Triangle shape, size of football field. Red and white lights. Moving slow and low.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-01
- Where
- Desoto, MO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.139, -90.555 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-desoto-mo-2015-bb85cb
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…
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Desoto, MO.
- This case is one of 101 Missouri reports filed in 2015.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% 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.