Springfield, MO, USA
My wife and I were sitting in our garage facing East, we see a ball of light moving quickly at first, then a helicopter chasing it. Th
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-01
- Where
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 37.215, -93.298 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-springfield-mo-2020-f132fc
Part of a wave
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
- One of 112 documented reports from Springfield, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 131 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
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