CaseCylinder2006

Columbia, MO, USA

UFO MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP REPORT: I was looking to the S when I saw what I believed to be a plane coming in our direction…

Report quality: High73/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-07-04
Where
Columbia, MO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
38.952, -92.334 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-columbia-mo-2006-f0f467
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 Columbia, MO in July 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Columbia, MO has 95 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 71 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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