CaseChanging2013

O'Fallon, MO, USA

It was the fourth of July, and there's always worldwide ufo sightings on Independence Day. Either a carefully carried out national hoax

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2013-07-04
Where
O'Fallon, MO, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
38.811, -90.700 · exact
Slug
changing-over-o-fallon-mo-2013-0fb71e
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…

In context

  • O'Fallon, MO has 47 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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