Springfield, MO, USA
((HOAX??)) Was flashing and changing from circle to triangle. Disappeared.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-10-27
- Where
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 37.215, -93.298 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-springfield-mo-2018-2eaef5
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
- Springfield, MO has 112 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 62 reports from Missouri.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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