Belton, MO, USA
Bright orange, steadily-glowing ball of light (Sphere) moving across the sky with sudden disappear/reappear before moving on.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-10
- Where
- Belton, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-4 minutes
- Geo
- 38.812, -94.532 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-belton-mo-2013-e84d81
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 15 documented reports from Belton, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 112 sightings in 2013.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.