Gainesville, MO, USA
Very bright white cylinder-shape object.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-29
- Where
- Gainesville, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.603, -92.428 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gainesville-mo-2015-556956
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 Gainesville, MO in October 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Gainesville, MO has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 101 reports from Missouri.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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