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Missouri UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 132 UFO sighting reports in Missouri from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (29 reports, 21.97% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 12.88% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 17.42% of total).
- 04/27/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 4.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (58 reports, 43.94% of total).
Missouri UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Missouri UFO reports from 2020, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Worming ribbon object moves through the kansas city sky. While outside smoking, my boyfriend got excited and pointed to the east and asked me, "wth is that?" I look over and this very strange long thin line that almost looked like a lace ribbon was moving like a worm across from east to south east. It was illuminated with multiple lights, very lightly visible almost as if they're all a piece of this long ribbon.
There were hundreds of these lights and the way this thing was moving was nothing we've ever seen before. From where we stood, the length of this object covered majority of our visible eastern direction in a horizontal line, I can't even begin to estimate its length. After worming across to the south for a few seconds, it began to shift going eastern and from then became impossible to see.
While this object/objects began shifting direction, he noticed a drone coming from the west that approached and slowed drastically before maneuvering south extremely slowly and maintained a steady position circling the southwest. Using my AR flight radar, the drone is actually an unidentified unit, typically meaning military or police of some sort. The timing and they're continuing area trace makes this quite intriguing.
I snapped some photos, haven't looked at them yet to see what exactly is visible, if there turns out any somewhat decent I shall send an email. Hopefully we weren't the only ones to see this. Definitely a new object I've yet to ever hear or see.
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White cylinder / Stick Shape went from sitting completely still in the sky, then moving backwards, forwards then gone 12.14.2020 Time: approx.
11:07am I was on my way to work driving on I-70 heading west toward the Earth City Exit. Keep in mind, this is not too far from Lambert Airport so seeing airplanes in the sky is an everyday all-day experience. However, this was no airplane at all.
I had just merged from 270 on to 70w and with Earth City being the first exit on the right side of 70w after merging off 270, I was approaching with my exit in view. I looked up due to the glare from the sun, I thought it was another airplane that I would see almost every day, but this was different, as I approached Earth City, I was getting closer to the single object & it looked like it was just sitting mid-air. For a moment, I thought I was seeing things.
The object seemed high in the sky like an airplane would however it was long and skinny almost stick like. It was white in color almost like the color of clouds. The closer I got, the more I realized this was not normal.
It was not a plane or a “stick Shaped Cloud” It was shaped more ! like a cylinder. Right before my eyes, I watched it go from completely still, move backwards then forward & gone in less than three seconds. Everything happened so extremely fast! Though I was blocks from my job location, I had pull over at the fuel station to gather myself.
I know what I saw, it was not an airplane nor a drone. It was not a glare, flare, or meteor. the sun is out today the sky is blue not many clouds are in the sky.
What I saw was something other worldly or some way advanced government secret. Either way, it has been two hours since this happened & I’m still shook by what I saw.
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The dim lights are all that we could see with no flashing. And no visible trail or sound. my friend and I were on my back patio smoking cigars and I noticed a group of what I first thought was a small group of birds but quickly realized it was not.
It was 4 dim lights, 3 in a triangle formation with the 3rd just outside the triangle traveling from west to east. I have no idea how high they were so I have no idea how big the craft was. They appeared to be traveling at a very high rate of speed and did very slightly from flying in a straight line.
we observed them until we could not see them anymore. The event only lasted about 6 seconds. And we also noticed that they made no sound that we could hear.
I am a USAF veteran and now my wife and I own a small restaurant and I'm a musician. My friend is a tile setter and is also a musician.
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10-15 stars in perfect formation traveling East. My son could not focus his phone to capture video. Amazing to see!.
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⏬ .⏬ .⏬ 6 dots like stars moving from west to east.
Not following each other. Beside one another.2 disappeared.
4 stayed visible.
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MADAR Node 36.
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Red green white Light blinking and twinkling in sky hovering about a mile up in clear sky A twinkling red green white light hovering in morning sky traveling south West of 71 hwy.
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It was shaped like a boomerang and flying low there were lights in the front and as it passed over we could hear a humming noise.
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Kingsville shell gas station. Seen 5 lights going in a circle that would appear and disappear.
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Vehicle in the night sky at low altitude experiences technical difficulties with active camouflage. Being November it was very dark. We were in the middle of town at a park.
There was light pollution around us but we were still very able to see stars in the sky. Many of them. I was with my daughter, she was on a piece of playground equipment, I looked up to her from the ground as I was chasing her around the playground playing tag.
It was a very very dark. As I stare up at her something flies out from behind her head, something up in the sky. I was immediately stupefied.
From my perspective it appeared massive. From my perspective it appeared massive. Unreasonably large.
Oppressively large. Stop you in your tracks dead large. Doesn’t belong in the sky large.
All I could say to her was ‘Look.’ and I pointed. She turned around and I saw her body froze immediately when she saw it and was also stupefied.
I was generally facing east and it was flying to the east by south east. I don’t know what it was. It’s speed, it’s absolute silence, it’s perceived massive! size weren’t the concerning or alarming part.
The absolutely unsettling part about it was how it appeared, I don’t mean how it arrived, I mean how it looked. I will do my best to describe the shape but when you understand how it appears you’ll understand you are not able to see it’s shape. I am a grown man, I fought in three wars, i’ve seen horrible things.
I have never witnessed something that froze me in my place. The appearance of this thing is terrifying. We left the park immediately, I called the police for god sake, and the Air Force Base.
I am unable to determine if it was very large and very far away, or somewhat smaller and closer. Regardless, it was very fast and absolutely silent. It flew anywhere from 100 yards overhead to maybe half a kilometer.
What was shocking about it was that you could not see it. It appeared to be so massive. This is difficult to describe but I will attempt to paint a clear picture.
I couldn’t tell if it was a wing shape, or if it was like a bell on its side, or like the USPS logo. It was invisible but you could see it. Imagine looking up at the sky, seeing stars everywhere, now cut out the shape of some sort of wing-bell-wedge shape and move it across the sky.
It had stars on its surface. Bright stars. It’s like there was a television in the sky with a camera behind it showing me the stars.
As the television moves the camera shows the stars behind the television. But for whatever reason the television stopped working and the stars were frozen in place on the surface of whatever i! t was. Does that make sense? It was like it had moving camouflage but the camouflage stopped moving.
It was so massive that its movement was absolutely apparent. It looked like someone took a photo of the sky, with stars, and wrapped it around an airplane. It was too close.
It wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t like a crash or something. It was right where it wanted to be and it was moving right above us and headed to my right. It was totally silent.
It wasn’t something like you see on television, it wasn’t a far away dot or a trash can floating two miles away. It was a car, a house, or a cruise ship sized object. It was so large that you almost could feel it’s movement, imagine looking up and seeing a blue whale flying over your head through the bottom of an aquarium.
But it was invisible. You could see the stars through it but for some reason the stars on its surface froze or stopped moving and when they did it exposed the movement of this massive hulking monolithic vague shape of moving stars cruising just over head.
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MADAR Node 46.
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Massive triangular craft seen hovering/twisting. Fast blinking lights that blinked in rhythmic procession. Seemed absolutely massive.
Dogs barking.
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3 pulsating lights seen hovering in the night sky. Believe this may be a single, triangular craft (we are in the country so the skies are too dark to determine with certainty that this was a single craft). The 3 lights blinked in order and remained equally distant while hovering.
After a few minutes, the lights began to move across the sky. Video being sent via email (subject line - 3 Pulsating Lights Hovering in Night Sky).
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A black massive triangle shaped ufo with blinking orangish lights on each corner (3) was slowly hovering from the west heading east. The sky was clear and I was able to see the stars. The ufo blacked out the stars and I could see the 3 corners of the craft continuously blinking nonstop.
The craft was obviously massive but oddly I heard no sound. The craft suddenly but slowly changed direction and headed south. After a few minutes the craft was out of sight.
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MADAR Node 46.
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MADAR Node 46.
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MADAR Node 70.
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MADAR Node 40.
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MADAR Node 46.
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MADAR Node 40.
Missouri UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 29 reported sightings | 21.97% of all reports |
Circle | 9 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Missouri UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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April | 17 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
August | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
March | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
October | 15 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
February | 13 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
July | 13 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
November | 12 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
September | 8 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Missouri UFO Sightings From 2020 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Friday | 23 reported sightings | 17.42% of all reports |
Sunday | 22 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 20 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Thursday | 20 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Tuesday | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Wednesday | 16 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Missouri UFO Sightings From 2020 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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04/27/20 | 6 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
04/26/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
03/05/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
08/12/20 | 4 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Missouri UFO Sightings From 2020 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 58 reported sightings | 43.94% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 24 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 20 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 11 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 7.58% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
All Missouri Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Missouri, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Missouri
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Missouri.