Butler, MO, USA
Me and others witnessed an extrodinary bright light, ball looking in the sky moving somewhat slowly.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-07
- Where
- Butler, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.259, -94.331 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-butler-mo-2008-a45cb9
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Butler, MO.
- This case is one of 107 Missouri reports filed in 2008.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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