Unspecified over Sullivan, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Man sees very large obj. in storm clouds during daylight! Obj. suddenly projects visible beam of light down vert., illuminates ground.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1996-05-23 → 1996-06-09
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July 17, 2023 · 10:27 AM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
My kids and I were carpooling home in 2 cars from St.Louis, MO to Springfield, MO headed west on I-44 when we saw a long white tic tac type cylinder with rounded edges hovering above the tree line. I instantly turned my phone towards it that was on a mount and I thought started recording. I first spotted an enormous long cylinder shape right above the tree line probably less than a few miles away. I noticed skydivers parachuting near by and thought this might be the plane that dropped them but then noticed the object was too far away from the skydivers to have dropped them and the more I looked I noticed the cylinder object was about the length of several large airplanes, and obviously not a small plane to drop skydivers. I would say the object was half a mile to a mile long. It was enormous in length. Solid white, with rounded ends, like a giant half mile long propane tank hovering in the sky. I was blown away. I went over a hill and the object disappeared behind the tree line, when I got over the hill the object was gone. The skydivers were still there. My teenage son who was driving behind me, called me on my cell phone right after it disappeared and said Dad did you see that! I was so happy that he had seen it too. I said yes and I got it on video but then I looked down and I noticed in my excitement I had forgot to hit record on the phone. I was so sad. I then asked my son what he had seen? He said that he was driving and noticed a white circle light in the sky and asked his sister who was also in the car with him if she saw it. At first she did not, but then after scanning the sky she saw it too. They both said then the object started moving left in the sky as a circle of light and then instantly became a giant line in the sky they said. They also noticed the parachuters but also noticed this object was miles away from the parachuters. I felt like the object was almost watching the skydivers, and if the skydivers were wearing cameras or if anyone was filming them coming down from the ground below they had to have caught this giant object on camera somewhere. Anyways my son said he saw it turn from a bright circle to a long line and then he said he looked again as he was driving and it was gone but my daughter said she watched the line move left in the sky and the rapidly take off like it had propulsion and disappear. I called the skydiving place to ask if they had any witnesses but they said they would get back to me and that was a few days ago and I haven’t heard back. 3 of us saw this but I think the reason I could make out it’s cylinder shape and rounded edges was because I was a few car lengths ahead of my kids and had the advantage of being closer to make out more detail. I can’t think of anything more except to say I know that highway was pretty busy and I am quite sure that other motorists had to have seen it as well. If I held my finger up to the window and tree line a normal plane would take up about a quarter inch of my finger, this object was easily a full inch of my finger long. Extremely long and that was from miles away, I can’t imagine how big it really was.
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
Observed what seemed to be a meteor shower coming from south to north. The 25 light “shower” ended up laying horizontally cruising as fast as a commercial aircraft and about as high, I believe. It cruised for nearly 30 seconds northward and simply disappeared. Holding my arms up, my hands would be 3 feet apart. That was the size, at least 20 commercial airplanes. The ufo was silent. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 28, 2020 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Sullivan, MO
Video was taken by a party who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being! It was reported at approximately 20:16 CST. 28 August, 2020. That 3-4 bright objects were seen from the backyard of a friend's father residence. The skyline relative to the objects location and eyewitness approximation of distance from his view point; would have placed The UAP over The Pea Ridge Iron Ore Mine. Approximately 8-10 miles Southeast of the residence in Sullivan,Mo. A short video was captured on a cellphone, showing multiple objects moving erratically. Abrupt stops, disappearing and reappearing almost instantaneously and great distance and maneuvering in ways inconsistent with any modern day Aerospace Technology that I am aware of. I would like to share the Video Evidence.
July 2, 2017 · 10:02 AM · TRIANGLE
Sullivan, MO
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 22, 2000 · 5:15 PM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
Driving East on I44 saw object moving very slowly against broken clouds in view 2 min then disappeared.