UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Springfield, MO, USA

My son laid on our pick nick table and pointed above our apartment complex, and asked,"What is that, is that a hot air balloon? This i

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-06-25
Where
Springfield, MO, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
four minutes
Geo
37.215, -93.298 · exact
Slug
other-over-springfield-mo-2005-39024f
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

  • One of 112 documented reports from Springfield, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 77 sightings in 2005.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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