UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Lee's Summit, MO, USA

With binoculars this object was a round sphere covered with small white lights moving erratically horizonally, vertically and in circle

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-09-19
Where
Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
38.911, -94.382 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lee-s-summit-mo-2008-3e855c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Lee's Summit, MO shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 107 reports came from Missouri in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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