CaseLight2008

Butler, MO, USA

((HOAX??)) Me and another person seen a white shaped ball of light traveling through the sky.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-07-04
Where
Butler, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
38.259, -94.331 · exact
Slug
light-over-butler-mo-2008-d80a91
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

  • Butler, MO shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 107 reports came from Missouri in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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