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
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…
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 daysReport
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