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
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
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 daysReport
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.