CaseCylinder1947
Morehouse, MO, USA
Looked like airplanes without windows, wings, or tails.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-15
- Where
- Morehouse, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 36.847, -89.685 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-morehouse-mo-1947-d28cae
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Morehouse, MO.
- This case is one of 1 Missouri reports filed in 1947.
- Cylinder craft made up 3.9% of 1940s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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.