CaseChanging2017

Independence, MO, USA

Large, starry light changing shape to triangle/diamond over Independence, MO.

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-10
Where
Independence, MO, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2 hours
Geo
39.091, -94.416 · exact
Slug
changing-over-independence-mo-2017-c09243
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Independence, MO in June 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Independence, MO has 59 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

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.