Unknown over Columbia, MO
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While driving to work this morning we saw an unusual object in the sky...
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November 16, 2022 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Columbia, MO
It was about 1:00 am when i was driving home from a friends house. Next thing I know i see a massive aircraft with dim orange lights on the bottom in the shape of a flying saucer. It was 150-200 feet in the air above trees on w s hampton blvd. It couldnt have been anything else as it was completely clear to me and was extremely close. Hovering in one spot. Because i was in the middle of driving i saw it for about 5 seconds before it got lost in the trees.
June 29, 2022 · 11:50 AM · CYLINDER
Columbia, MO
Driving home, east on W. Nifong, turning left, north, on Forum Blvd. when a flash of light caught my eye, saw a cylinder (fuselage, no wings) gliding east over a residential area. I would say it was about 500 feet to my northeast, (Google maps) traveling east. It was approximately 60 degrees over horizon, so rather low. Unfortunately, because of traffic I could not pull over. I continued to look for object as I drove and cleared trees but did not see it again. It appeared bright white, not silver, would measure about half an inch at if held at arms length. Sky was clear, no clouds. Sun was bright.
November 19, 2021 · 2:45 AM · OTHER
Columbia, MO
2:45 am. The witness first saw something in the sky with his roommate an hour before he took a video (the second time he saw it). Both of them tried to justify what it might have been, but couldn't identify it as any animal or thing they had seen before. The object was dark, almost blending into the sky and was very difficult to tell its distance from them or size in comparison to them. The first time, they chalked it up to just being odd, but still felt uneasy about its movements. An hour later, the main witness went back outside to the patio of his apartment to watch the lunar eclipse/ red moon and saw the object in the sky again, but closer, which freaked him out. He ran to the door of his building and started taking a video of the black/dark thing and watched as a saucer-like object hovered, and then effortlessly moved across the sky, without visible evidence of any device allowing it to do so. Once his building was obstructing his view of it, he ran inside shaking from adrenaline and utter shock.(MUFON CMS)
March 12, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, MO
I was looking up at the night sky on a clear night, around 9PM, March 12. I was staring at Orion's belt. Between the stars "Meissa" and "Betelgeuse" I saw a bright white light. I would say it quickly appeared like within 1 second, but it was not instantaneous. It was a constant white light that did not flicker or distort in any way, and was about twice the size of the nearby stars. It then moved between those 2 stars from right to left (west to east) within 2.5-3 seconds and then faded out as quickly as it had appeared. It had no trail or anything typical of a "shooting star."
July 14, 2019 · 11:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Columbia, MO
I was outside on my back porch at 2300 hours looking at the moon with my telescope. There was some overcast around the moon. It was clear over the rest of the sky. I sat down to wait for the clouds to move from around the moon. I saw a bright light coming out of the southwest toward my house. There were lights flashing. No noise. I would venture to say it was about 5000 ft up and coming down toward my house. It is turning to a more direct east path and crossed right over my head. I was filming it and taking pics of it with my cell phone. The main craft was elongated rectangle with no wings. It had bright lights at the front and back of it. There were little orbs of light flying around it. The large craft opend up bays doors on the bottom of the craft. It was a very bright light coming out of the bay area but, I could see pipes and structures, beams of light flying around inside of it too. As it passed by me I at first it looked like tail lights on the back of it but, I realized it was different colored orbs floating on the back of the craft. It was not going to fast about 50 or 60 Mile an hour is my guess.
November 26, 2018 · 8:02 PM · TRIANGLE
Columbia, MO
sky was clear enough I could see stars and even 2 planes higher in the sky.. I also saw a hawk or owl fly by moments before so I had a good reference point of looking.. I was at a school tossing Frisbee with my dog.. then very faint at first I see this triangle or more like v over head like 200-300 feet in the air.. it almost had no lights or faint lights on the 2 parts of the v at first I was like am I seeing something what is that.. I watched it for a good 20 more seconds pass straigt over the school it was very fast and made no noise.. but my eyes could clearly see this triangle v shapped object zoom over my head again I could see two planes at this time higher in the sky and saw a bird clearly visable .. this object was faint almost like a ghost but was clearly there as I watched it pass over.. I cant explain it was earie feeling.