Cape Girardeau, MO, USA
Spotted first on hwy 25 near delta mo. Bright light with red green orange flashing. Not moving. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-11-23
- Where
- Cape Girardeau, MO, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Still there
- Geo
- 37.306, -89.518 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cape-girardeau-mo-2012-2b1e22
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
- Cape Girardeau, MO shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 177 reports came from Missouri in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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