Joplin, MO, USA
We saw a triangular object with lights on each corner that hovered in one spot for 25 minutes over our city and videotaped it.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-15
- Where
- Joplin, MO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 37.084, -94.513 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-joplin-mo-2017-9efede
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
- Joplin, MO has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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