CaseTeardrop2018

Troy, MO, USA

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Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-10
Where
Troy, MO, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10:00
Geo
38.979, -90.981 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-troy-mo-2018-23e38e
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

  • Troy, MO shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 62 reports came from Missouri in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

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