UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Independence, MO, USA

Volkswagen sized object. Couldn't make out the shape. On fire. Entering earth's atmosphere. No bright light coming from it.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-27
Where
Independence, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.091, -94.416 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-independence-mo-2018-2e0755
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Independence, MO has 59 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 62 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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