CaseUnknown1998
West Plains, MO, USA
bright orange lights in perfect horizontal formation 5-8 sec & went out 1 by 1. Also object traveling very fast, then bright light and
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-17
- Where
- West Plains, MO, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 HOURS
- Geo
- 36.728, -91.852 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-plains-mo-1998-5d83ff
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from West Plains, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 38 sightings in 1998.
Report
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