UFO Sightings in Missouri
2,650 UFO sightings reported in Missouri since 1941, peaking in 2012 (177 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,650
- Span
- 1941–2030
- Peak year
- 2012 (177 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1941–2030 · peak 2012 (177 reports)
Top cities in Missouri
St. Louis
1962–2022 · peak 2020 (22 reports)
Kansas City
1950–2022 · peak 2020 (14 reports)
Springfield
1974–2021 · peak 2012 (14 reports)
Columbia
1995–2021 · peak 2007 (9 reports)
Independence
1955–2022 · peak 2020 (10 reports)
St. Charles
1973–2020 · peak 2011 (6 reports)
O'Fallon
1997–2021 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
Lee's Summit
1979–2021 · peak 2010 (5 reports)
St. Peters
1998–2018 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Blue Springs
1981–2020 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Rolla
1977–2020 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Joplin
1970–2021 · peak 2019 (3 reports)
Cape Girardeau
1956–2018 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Wentzville
2003–2022 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Florissant
1987–2020 · peak 2009 (4 reports)
Jefferson City
1965–2020 · peak 2016 (3 reports)
Farmington
1994–2021 · peak 2009 (4 reports)
Arnold
1997–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Fenton
1990–2021 · peak 2010 (3 reports)
Ashgrove
1999–2013 · peak 2001 (4 reports)
Goodman · MO, USA
Witnesses in Goodman, Missouri reported a metallic, saucer-shaped object hovering at roughly 500 feet in broad daylight for three to five minutes in June 1971.
Sturgeon · MO, USA
A witness near Sturgeon, Missouri, reported a rumbling noise followed by a bright light and sudden silence in September 1970, during an event lasting fifteen to twenty minutes.
Everton · MO, USA
strange lights follow automobile
Kansas City · MO, USA
A brilliant greenish light suddenly appeared within a gray cloud over Kansas City, Missouri, in May 1970, visible for about ten seconds.
Joplin · MO, USA
Large object moved slowly over the city
Independence · MO, USA
A Missouri MUFON investigator documented a witness account of a spherical object over the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant near Independence, Missouri, visible about two hours in August 1969.
St. Louis · MO, USA
A witness in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri reported a brownish-gray cigar-shaped object that moved off toward the west in May 1969, during a two-minute sighting.
Gasconade · MO, USA
Colored fog on ground. Mom wouldn't let me go outside to see what it was. I am a Nuc. Engr.Sisters & Person not yet born then has see
Hillsboro · MO, USA
A witness in Hillsboro, Missouri reported encountering six humanoid figures, described as roughly seven feet tall with an olive-green color, during a sighting lasting five to ten minutes in June 1968.
St. Louis · MO, USA
Multiple witnesses in south St. Louis County, Missouri near Route 255 and Lemay Ferry Road reported an oval-shaped object in May 1968 during a brief five-minute sighting.
Highway 71 between Clearmont · Missouri and Maryville, Missou, MO, USA
Noticed a semi-circular array of white lights with a pulsing middle light. Observed object in southern sky. Actually heard propulsion
Warrensburg on Highway 13 · MO, USA
According to a Missouri Investigators Group report, witnesses saw two parallel lights cross rapidly in front of their windshield near Warrensburg, Missouri, during a 20-second sighting in June 1967.
Laddonia · MO, USA
Residents of Laddonia, Missouri, reportedly witnessed unidentified objects in the sky on three consecutive nights in 1967, according to an account seeking others who observed the same events.
Gainesville · MO, USA
Near Gainesville, Missouri in June 1966, a witness reported a silent, hovering disk-shaped craft over their home that other nearby people reportedly did not mention, for three to four minutes.
Grandview · MO, USA
Depressed for 40 years from this happening…
Whiteman AFB · MO, USA
At Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri in June 1966, military personnel reported a saucer-like disk object in the sky, observed over about two hours.
Richmond · MO, USA
Near Rayville, close to Richmond, Missouri in 1966, four teenagers reported a disk-shaped object on a country road, observed for about one hour.
Kirkwood · MO, USA
A witness in Kirkwood, Missouri reported watching a disk-shaped object descend from the sky and hover at close range for two to three minutes in 1966.
Jefferson City · MO, USA
Near Jefferson City, Missouri in the mid-1960s, witnesses reported a silver sphere that descended and then rapidly ascended as a military jet approached, over about two minutes.
St. Louis · MO, USA
Near St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 1965, witnesses reported an orange sphere pursued by an F-4 military fighter jet, making abrupt maneuvers at extremely high speed over about two minutes.
Moberly · MO, USA
Near Moberly, Missouri on July 1, 1965, witnesses reported a bright light crossing the sky, circling the full moon, and then crossing back, over about 10 to 15 minutes.
St. Louis (just outside of) · MO, USA
silverish SPHERE 1960s St Louis
Knobnoster · MO, USA
Near Whiteman Air Force Base in Knobnoster, Missouri in 1965, witnesses reported an oval-shaped object in the sky, watched for about twenty minutes.
Hurley · MO, USA
A witness walking home on Highway B near Hurley, Missouri reported a chevron-shaped object in the western sky that passed overhead and disappeared to the east, lasting about 20 minutes, June 1965.
St. Louis County · MO, USA
I was walking to church very early on the morning of May 5, 1965. Cutting across the rear of the adjacent school parking lot, a bright