CaseSphere1969
Independence, MO, USA
A Missouri MUFON investigator documented a witness account of a spherical object over the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant near Independence, Missouri, visible about two hours in August 1969.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-08-01
- Where
- Independence, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 39.091, -94.416 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-independence-mo-1969-dc0740
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In context
- Independence, MO shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Missouri in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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