CaseOval1997

Springfield (25 miles northeast of), MO, USA

At approxamatly 1a.m. Cnt/stn time. A group of young adults 21-25 years of age. Where Having a get to gather at an ANONYMOUS idaviduals

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-20
Where
Springfield (25 miles northeast of), MO, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15mins.
Geo
37.215, -93.298 · exact
Slug
oval-over-springfield-25-miles-northeast-of-mo-1997-f816f6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Springfield (25 miles northeast of), MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 59 sightings in 1997.
  • Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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