West Alton (Mississippi River), MO, USA
It went underwater eventually, it was black,and seemed to have something on its back, cell phone signal was temporarily lost.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-08
- Where
- West Alton (Mississippi River), MO, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.865, -90.223 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-alton-mississippi-river-mo-2011-987232
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
- One of 1 documented reports from West Alton (Mississippi River), MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 139 sightings in 2011.
Report
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