UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

Columbia, MO, USA

Cluster of lights moved along the sky slowly as if they were birds, then formed a V shape as they continued to move along. I pulled ove

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-02
Where
Columbia, MO, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
38.952, -92.334 · exact
Slug
formation-over-columbia-mo-2017-afafbd
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

  • Columbia, MO has 95 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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