CaseSphere2012

Excelsior Springs, MO, USA

Yellow sphere shot across sky.. no trail.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-21
Where
Excelsior Springs, MO, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Geo
39.339, -94.226 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-excelsior-springs-mo-2012-fa4c5b
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…

In context

  • Excelsior Springs, MO has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 177 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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