UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Strafford, MO, USA

Incredibly bright light(s) in sky, felt like 3 unknown shapes maybe orbs

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-10-16
Where
Strafford, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~20 minutes
Geo
37.268, -93.117 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-strafford-mo-2021-4df0b1
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Strafford, MO.
  • This case is one of 74 Missouri reports filed in 2021.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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