CaseFlash2018

Belton, MO, USA

Bright flashing lights over military base white red green and blue.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-01
Where
Belton, MO, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 second bursts
Geo
38.812, -94.532 · exact
Slug
flash-over-belton-mo-2018-6ef1fb
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…

In context

  • Belton, MO has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 62 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

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.