Missouri UFO Sightings in 2001

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4 circular cloud-like lights moving in a circular motion , rotating methodically, then meeting in the center I went outside to do chores 2118 on December 18, 2001. I looked up in the sky and saw 4 circular cloud-like lights moving in a circular motion , rotating methodically, then meeting in the center and then splitting apart. I ran in the house and got my 14 and 10 year old son.

They also saw the same thing I did. It gets brighter or more sparkling in the center, then fades intermittently. We thought we heard a humming noise, but as we got closer the formation moved away .

It was hard to guage distance. We were able to continue to observe it for more than 40 minutes. When we last looked at it, you could faintly see it in the sky.

It had faded considerably, then disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a rotating advertising light may have been the cause of the sighting. PD)) ((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION Dear Ms.

((deleted)), Thank you very much for the report. Based on what you have written, I presume that the sighting you experienced was caused by a four-light advertising device. We receive reports about them on a somewhat regular basis.

Thank you for sharing the information with our Center. Cordially, Peter Davenport ((RESPONSE)) Peter Well that may be a possibility, but I live in the country and there is no way that could be the case.

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Coming home from a board meeting I saw a black triangle over a house in my neighborhood. I slowed, turned off my radio, rolled down my window - it was silent about the size of the roof of a standard 1,500 sq. ft.

home. On each tip there was a dim light. The object was low.

I was on a trip when a young man mentioned seeing a triangle-shaped ship in Columbia/Waterloo, Illinois. I hadn't mentioned my sighting, so I asked him questions and he described what I had seen. He was on Route 3 on his way to work.

The timing was the same time of year. END PS: A couple who are friends of mine witnessed a giant ship over the Lake of the Ozarks along with their two sons. He stated that the ship was gian, cigar-shaped, silent and moved very slowly over the lake - they witnessed this from a balcony of the place where they were staying (hotel/condo?).

They said that the ship slowly turned and then shot away at extraordinary speeds. Also, they said that some of the lights were intensely bright. Thank You for your service.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates approximate date. We have assigned an arbitrary date above, to conform to the statement, "Winter '01." PD)).

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falling satellite this is in response to many reports on this same date in that same area, it was my 18th birthday so I remember it very well, and i saw the same thing reported by many others' in missouri, the next day I recall reading about and hearing on the news that it was acutally a japanese communications satellite that came down. as I recall it was like 3 long blazing trails all parrellel with each other stacked vertically with several orb shaped objects intermixed between and around the three trails. We watched it and it was silent.

You can probably check news reports from december 2nd about the object. oh yeah, and a friend of mine called the hotline this evening cause he saw the number on the tv on public access in columbia missouri, and he left a crazy message around 7:00 p.m.

central time, please disregard it, he got excited and decided to screw with people on the hotline. I'm really sorry about that.

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Two triangluar/chevron-shaped objects flew from zenith to horizon in less than 30 sec. Two triangular/chevron-shaped objects flew across my binoculars field of view while I was observing M38, an open cluster. M38 was almost at the zenith when I saw the two craft.

They went amazingly fast. I followed them to the best of my abilitiy but they went down over the horizon in less than thirty seconds. I'm not sure what velocity a craft would have to be going to get from horizon to horizon in a minute, but I know it doesn't happen with any craft known to me.

The two triangular/chevron-shaped craft were in tight formation, and did not move from it. They went in a straight line across the sky, always staying the same distance from each other. There were no lights on the craft, but they were visible by ambient light.

There was no noise following their pass over me. I checked ISS visibility for my town and it was in South America when the occurance happened. Also, the objects' direction of travel was wrong for the ISS.

In addition, the ISS is visible for 5-6 minutes when it passes over any place on earth. ((NUFORC Note: Source is anonymous. PD)).

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My brother and I saw something strange burning into the atmosphere My brother was outside on the back porch letting his dog out, and he suddenly yelled for me to come look at the sky. We both saw a circular glowing shape burning into the atmosphere. we yelled for our mom to come look and she did too.

it seemed to be breaking up as well. it started off as a deep purple slowly changing into orange and yellow. it continued to change and break up until it dissapeared.

we couldnt figure out what it was. and the fact that it was so well seen. anyone who was looking up at the sky at that moment in the area would have seen it.

it was on the westerly side of the sky. later that night we watched the news. and they had an extremely small two sentences to say about it.

someone had caught it on video. and the news anchor said it was "space trash" but there were no details. it sounded to me like no one really knew and they didnt want anyone to know about it.

it definetely was one of the weirdest things i have ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. PD)).

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I have been listening to radio traffic and heard county sherriff dispatch report of reports of craft. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

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Large area of bright objects with falling across the atmosphere from Southwest to Northeast in Missouri above Kansas City We saw several large bright white objects with trails of redish gold sparkle. It looked like a satellite I saw fall across the sky several years ago. It went from Southwest to Northeast and lasted for over a minute.

I contacted Columbia Flight Service Station in Missouri and they said they had had one other report from Someone in Maryville Missouri with the same description. I am a Pilot and Instructor and felt obligated to report it. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

(Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the witness may have been observing what was reported as re-entering space debris. It was reported from TX, NM, OK, KS, MO, and from other midwestern states, as well. If so, the date of the event was Saturday, 01DE01.

We have amended the date above. PD)) Two Fiery UFO's Seen from Hellicopter at near the same height. This is second person, so bare with me.

I didn't witness the crafts myself, I'm just repeating my uncles story. My uncle flies med-vac choppers from Columbia, MO to Springfield, MO and Kansas City, MO. Two - three weeks (exact date unknown to me- between 11/25-30/01) ago he witnessed two Unidentified Flying Objects en route between Springfield and Columbia.

He said it was pretty close to Fort Smith(?) off of I44 between Rolla and Springfield. My uncle described these UFO's as practically undescribable or unviewable rather, other than that there was a fiery aura around the actual ships, or flames (redish orange with a blue mixture as well) unlike any fire that is common on earth and that he'd seen for that matter, blanketing the crafts outward appearance. The ship itself wasn't even distinguishable.

He said he was travelling at about 2500ft and they appeared infront of him, like a cars headlights, at a height of nearly or exactly 3000ft, and at around 700 - 800 mph passed directly in front of him, flying exactly parallel to the earths surface, one slightly behind and caddy corner to the other. He witnessed them go out of sight, as they had come into his view. He even said they flew directly inbetween his chopper and a cesna flying not to far off beside of him (distance unknown to me), and when he made the call on his transmitter he was told that they were not seen on their radar, yet the cesna and him were obviously there.

He also said that they were not small either. Very large. He didn't go into exact detail on the size of the crafts.

I don't know where he was speaking to exactly, but he said that he spoke directly to an Air Force (representative) also and was told by him that it was 'Space Debris'. There is no way that this was space debris given it's path of travel. If space debris it would have been heading towards the earth! He said that the Air Force representative was adamant, and he realized that immediatly and complied.

The local Ozark media also ran the story telling of many eye witness accounts of the UFOs, but followed with the Air Forces guise agreeing that it was 'Space Debris'. Unfortunatly this is all I gathered from him. There was a nurse with him who shared the experience as well.

(personal note to previewer - omit from description) ((NUFORC Note: So omitted. Pertains to administrative points related to the report; contains no information pertinent to the event. PD)).

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bright ufos travel arcoss sky at night, they broke into 30 brights globes. Huge UFO, Enters Midwest Sky, Streaks of brilliant light that were spotted from Texas to Kansas City, on Saturday night I was driving on the Kansas when I saw this huge UFO in the sky! I heard on radio that night, theat lights from the Oklahoma border to near Kansas City. I can tell you "it"was not space junk.

Very, bright light that crossed the horizon from southwest to northeast and broke. The press is lying. It was a clear UFO.

It had four long streaks with objects, in front. It looked like a "armada" of UFOs.It appeared to break up into about 30 little balls, all white, broken up in the atmosphere.

NORAD monitors satellites and space debris that re-enters the atmosphere. I also know they catalog all space junk, even, small items. How come this got by their detecton? These "objects"the night sky was especially clear, and moving fast.

I was on vacation in the area in Kansas City, where my cousin lives. I never seen anything like it before. It seemed so wizard of Oz, yet so spectacular, but real! ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs.

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Unfamiliar Black Triangular shaped craft with lights I was standing on my porch at 5:35 am when I noticed a bright light in the sky .I at first thought it was a planet but then I wondered what planet would be out at this time in the mornig in the northeast and be so bright it would hurt your eyes to look at it . I then noticed it was actually moving towards me .

It was a dark triangluar shaped object with three lights That I could see . The very bright light in the center of the craft which was approx three fourths of the way up the craft from the rear , and two reddish orange lights which were smaller with one at each corner in the rear .I could not tell if there may have been a similar small light on the front of the craft as the bright central light made it diffucult to tell and its placement being closer to the front than it was to the rear .

It was traveling slowly toward the southwest and as it flew overhead at the altitude it was at I would guess that it would have appeared to be about four inches across at the rear and about five inches in length .Roughly the same size or perhaps a little larger than an A10 would appear at a similar altitude . I live roughly 50 miles northwest of Fort Leonard Wood missouri and A10's frequently fly over our area .

As the craft proceeded overhead I had to walk out from my porch and continue around to keep the craft in sight .I didn't hear any noise coming from the craft nor could I distinguish any exhaust vents on it either . The lights were not strobing and I asked some of my friends and co workers as well as family if all aircraft had strobing lights or not and they could not tell me either .

I myself don't ever recall seeing aircraft without strobing lights .The sides of the craft were straight and the tips were rounded . I didn't note any after effects and my eyesight was not affected .

The only discomfort noted was only while looking at it because of the intensity of the bright light .As far as backround , I am a 44 year old divorced single parent with three children still living at home .

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A triangular craft with red and white moving and pulsated only white and a contuous red beam surging along the back of the ship There was one triangular object with red and white searchlights which pulsated and moved from spot to spot. The craft was very silent and flew low and extremely slow. There were white colored beams along both sides of the ship that were on continously on and visible.

There was a darker shaded haze surrounding the ship. It also contuous red beam surging along the back of the shiphad ((NUFORC Note: No other reports were received from this populated area. PD.

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unusual speed and definition Bright dot of light at approx. zenith traveling south to north. Appeared directly overhead and appeared to travel approx.

15 degrees before disappearing. Appeared to be approx. same diameter as Jupiter at zenith, but was intensely white and bright.

The object was circular in shape, very well defined, moving at an extremely high rate of speed. What made this observation unusual was the absolute lack of smearing as it progressed (being a longtime viewer/photographer of meteor showers I'm well aware of normal characteristics) and the abrupt disappearence of the object. Both my wife and I viewed this object and we concur in our descriptions of what we observed.

We are avid viewers of the night sky and absolute skeptics. The lack of smearing and the excellent definition of the object are why we are submitting this report. Hypothesis non fingo.

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circles of flashing lights seen over ozark mountains we have been seeing these objects for about 3 years now. there is often just one in the north/west low in the sky. we have seen two or three at a time but never more till about a week ago.

to the east, on either side of orions belt, seeming an exact equal distance from the belt, were two very large "circles" and then to the left or a little north of those, we saw two more smaller "circles". these circles always appear the same, they are perfectly round and flash brightly, most all flash red, blue, green, yellow, white. tho one of the four, the one to the south of orions belt, flashed, blue, purple, white only.

veiwed thru binoculars they are perfectly round and the colors and flashing quite clear. with the sight slightly blurred the flashing colors are more pronounced. we have often seen one to the east by it's self and much lower on the horizon and the one to the north can be veiwed for several nights in a row most times.

we have watched the one in the north and one (maybe the same one) in the west sky, move wildly. they sometimes seem to bounce around or jet back and forth. most do not move at all.

the four last week were completely stationary. i checked on the possiblity of satelites and found that their discription does not at all match what we are seeing here. nor are they planes, jets or helicopters of any kind we know of.

my husband was in the service for over 8 years (82nd airborne). we are educated people and generally sceptical to a logical degree. about 2 or 3 months ago army helicopters began coming around at night on a weekly basis.

we've not been able to tell whether they are asociated with the circles but their increased appearance and their appearance at night goes along with an increase in our sightings of these circles. as for electrical phenomena, there has been nothing directly linked to the circles, however, since the increase in sightings and the increase in number of circles (about the last 3 months) our answering machine freaked out answering calls that never rang in ? seeming t! o dial o ut?? and finnally went out in an odd manner, our phone sounds "tapped" as tho someone were often listening in or when it's picked up it has an open line, my computer will often freak out doing very odd things like exchanging numbers for letters. i would not suggest that these things have anything to do with the circles but things just "feel" odd these days.

anyway, there you have some of our story. odd but true. ((NUFORC Note: Report appears to us not to be inconsistent with "twinkling" stars.

PD)).

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I was out camping in the country in Benton County, MO in the Truman Resevoir area. I was lying outdoors, snuggled in my sleeping bag in November, 2001, at about 1 am. It was a full-moon that night; ceiling and visibility were unlimited.

I was encamped in a sparse cedar grove at the Southern end of a 40-60 acre cattle pasture. Wind was almost still; ambient noise was basically non-existent; air temp was approx. 40F.

What breeze there was from the NW I awoke to my wolf-dog hybrid(1/4 wolf;1/4 malamute; 1/2 yellow lab; I include this description of him to give a sense of how much I trust this dog's senses and instincts; he is very intelligent, very observant, and knows the difference between a possible threat or unknown machine or entity and something to be disregarded) growling--not viciously or menacingly--at first, just suspiciously, and observing something off the ground over the pasture. At first, very faintly, I hear a "swooshing" noise with a high pitched whine approaching from the North very slowly. Also, the swooshing noise was deep and rythmically slow.

The best thing I could come close to describing it as sounding like is an attic fan with a whining, loose bearing. As it approached, the noise became more pronounced, but the same rythmically. This was a full moon night; this thing was within 200 yards of me over open terrain.

I would judge its alltitude at between 100 and 200 feet. Its airspeed was much, much slower than any man-made aircraft I know of could maintain and stay aloft. I was in the military; I have flown in Blawkhawks, Hueys, Sea Nights, and C-135's.

As this object approached, my dog became much more menacing in his deep-throated growl, and his eyes locked onto this object and started tracking it. Yet, I could see nothing. This object flew directly over me; my vision was unobstructed.

The moon was overhead slightly to the South West. The object flew over me at about 100-200 feet. Airspeed was INVESTIGATOR FOLLOW UP: In reference to your questions, I will try to answer them in order.

The only other bodily sensations I had consisted of the "tingling and icy cold-blooded feeling" one gets when confronted by something they have never experienced before; and cannot identify--in other words: "fear"! (also, hair standing on end, ect.) As for how I felt after it left? Physically fine; no lasting hearing impairment or pain. Now psychologically, I was very agitated and anxious; it was very fascinating, exciting, and frightening all at the same time! And no, no missing time.

Sorry! lol. Again, no; no dreams--just fascinating and life-long memories. And yes, I have been back there since the incident--and many times before--and only this one time has anything unusual occurred.

As for it being worth further investigation, I sincerely doubt it. Again, I have camped there many times since 1986, and have had only this one experience. However, I spent allot of time out West in California, Wyoming, and Colorado.

I was in the Marines in California from 1988-1993 in the infantry. I am an avid backpacker, hiker, camper, and general all-around outdoor-nature nut! I have spent allot of time in far more remote regions than this; and this was my first and only experience(and my grandmother's "sighting" was in the same county back in 1987). So, who knows for sure? As for an electrical transformer sound? No, not really; it was a whining noise: very high-pitched, rythmical, and.

"mechanical?" Not a humming or buzzing type noise. But without a visual/phyisical description, I'm not sure of what value it would be; other than its uniqueness of being only heard and not seen, I guess! lol. (Report received by Missouri Investigators Group.

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White ball of light over Springfield, MO moving south to north very quickly and low at 9:15pm. I had a sighting last night at 9:15pm Halloween night from my front yard. It was a bright white ball of light traveling very quickly south to north over east Springfield, Missouri.

It was very low about 30 degrees above horizon. It was smaller than a pea at arm's length. No strobing or flashing lights or aircraft sounds heard.

This is the second time I've seen this light in a week. Last Thurs. 10/25 at 10pm I was on my backyard deck and noticed this same white ball moving SW of Springfield but much lower and it quickly disappeared behind trees and homes.

((NUFORC Note: We express our sincere gratitude to the MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP, and to its Director, BARBARA BECKER, for their having shared this report with our Center. If you have had a sighting in Missouri, please consider contacting that organization, at the website above, to share your sighting with their investigators, in addition to submitting a report to NUFORC. Thank you!! PD).

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The object was bright neon green and shot through the sky for just a few seconds, then disappeared. The object I saw was a very bright neon green colored object that appeared to be relatively low in the sky. I wasn't even looking in the sky, but the brightness of it caught my attention in the Northern sky and while it was in my sight, only lasted about 3 seconds.

It rocketed across the sky traveling from East to West for a short distance then simply disappeared. In describing it's size, if I held up my hands a foot apart looking toward the sky, that's how long it was. Using the same method for width, my hands would be about 4 inches apart.

There was no noticeable sound. The night was partly cloudy, however, the object appeared in front of the clouds and the point at which it disappeared would have been where the sky cleared, but it disappeared as well. I called to my husband, who was in the barn, but he did not get out in time to see it.

We live in the country, about 3 miles outside of town so there would not have been any city lights interfering. It made the hair on my neck stand up because, with the recent attacks on our country, I thought it was a missile and it truly scared me. We observed the sky a few minutes longer, but saw nothing else.

My husband and I are local business owners.

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orange and blue streak of light going from east to west very low. if it was a meteorite it was very low and very bright. and 8:30 pm was aprox.

we have a 6'X4' skylight in living room and we were watching tv and the full moon was begining to rise. My wife saw it first and I looked up just in time to see it streak by. I ran and looked out the west window but saw nothing.

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Pink anomali and the red pulsing light I joined my friend outside while he was having a smoke. His house sets on a little hill overlooking a small town 5 miles north. We stood on his concrete basketball court and fratenized in the cool missouri air.

I looked to my east, northeast,above the horizon was a pink, wispy, cloud superimposed on the blue night. It was like a light but not, it was like a paintbrush stroke but not. It was large, i estimate it to be around the size of 30 full moons, speaking of the moon it was directly opposite the pink anomali.

As any young 21 year old of average intelligence might gather, "this must be the northern lights". It was beautiful whatever it was and it held our full attetion for its duration. But here's the clincher about 3 minutes into the sighting a red pulsing light caught our attetion, due north, toward the town.

The light seemed to be between us and the town, but closer to the town of some 14,000. It was red, stoplight red,and its lights never toataly went out, but dimmed and brightened in a methodial pattern, bright 1000 dim 1000.i estimate its size at 1/10 the moons.

As the round light, as i could make out no shape of a craft, moved east toward the wispy pink anomali they both seemed to slowly disappear. That was it and they where gone. Sound u ask.

Yes we heard a sound even befor the sighting, we thought it was a jet overhead, but it seemed to linger, who knows if they're connected. I have no idea if the red pulsing light was connceted to the pink discoloration. I've had a couple more sightings, none this intresting.

My friend can backup all this 100%. What an intresting world we live in. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the pink glow in the north may have been an example of the "Northern Lights," also called the Aurora boreallis.

The red pulsing light may have been a strobe or Grimes Light on an aircraft. PD)).

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3 lights shaped a pyramid without sound low to the ground We didnt see it close up it had 3 lights on it. One at the top and two on bottom the right bottom one and top one disappeared first then the left bottom one. My friends and I were outside talking and one of my friends said ooh look and pointed to the sky and one of my friends thought that it was missiles and ran and the other one started to run but seen that i was dumbfounded and couldnt move and came back.

we watched it for a while and then it went away just disappeared couldnt tell if it had sound with it cause we had music blasting. it didnt look to far away but we couldnt tell the shape or anything except by the lights. it seemed pretty low.

seemed to hover in one spot for a while and then went away. I dont believe it was like an alien spacecraft but I believe it was something strange.

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Missouri Investigators Group (ufomig.com) investigated ufo reports by witness(es) in Ash Grove, MO from 11/17/99 to 10/4/01 11/4/2001 - Ash Grove, Missouri sightings follow-up investigation by Brian Adams, Missouri Investigators Group (http://ufomig.com) Various ufo sightings reported on NUFORC from 11/17/99 light * 12/17/99 other * 9/11/01 light * 9/25/01 unknown * 10/4/01 diamond were dates that ufo shapes were seen by family.

Nothing much to follow-up on any sighting report except that the family lives in an area just about 8 miles west of the Springfield-Branson Regional Airport. Their home is in a rural setting and sits up on a ridge with a good view east towards the airport. Air traffic is easily observed from their vantage point.

They did observe a strange moving light above the airport during the evening of 9/11/01 when no air traffic was supposed to be up in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: We express our sincere gratitude to the MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP, and to its Director, BARBARA BECKER, for their having shared this report with our Center. If you have had a sighting in Missouri, please consider contacting that organization, at the website above, to share your sighting with their investigators, in addition to submitting a report to NUFORC.

Thank you!! PD)).