Excelsior Springs, MO, USA
Fireball appearance coming towards me, 3 points of orange light when it turned and moved away from me
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-01
- Where
- Excelsior Springs, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 39.339, -94.226 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-excelsior-springs-mo-2021-c47a3c
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
- Excelsior Springs, MO has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 74 reports from Missouri.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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