Independence, MO, USA
Reddish orange fire flame dancing in night sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-27
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-independence-mo-2020-b1337d
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…
Local cluster
Independence, MO logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2020.
In context
- One of 59 documented reports from Independence, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 131 sightings in 2020.
- Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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