Triangle over Camdenton, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Unfamiliar Black Triangular shaped craft with lights
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 2001-11-24 → 2001-12-11
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July 3, 2017 · 12:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Camdenton, MO
I was returning from a camping trip Monday, July 3, 2017, pulling our camper. I was alone in my vehicle, my wife and daughter were following me in another vehicle. We were traveling eastbound on US Highway 54, approximately 5 miles south of Camdenton, Missouri. The highway runs fairly north at that point. The skies were clear with a white fluffy cloud bank several miles ahead of me. I saw what was clearly a large gray colored rectangular box shaped craft floating from my right to my left just this side of the cloud bank, moving in a southwesterly direction, And what I would guess to be several miles in front of me. This thing was immense but just how large was hard to tell because of the distance. I glanced at my watch, it was 12:25 PM. There are a lot of trees alongside the highway and this is a hilly area, so I lost sight of the craft a couple of times by going up and down the hills, but I saw it for approximately a total of 30 to 45 seconds, before I lost sight of it for good because of the lay of the land. I was looking for a place on the shoulder to pull over and stop and jump out and run back to tell my wife and daughter what I had just seen and when I did it was just before a T intersection with a road to the left, so I told my wife about what I had seen and told her to drive down that road and see if she could see the object which she did and she never saw it. I'll be 67 years old next month August, and I've been waiting all my life, knowing there are UFOs and extraterrestrials out there. Now I have finally seen a UFO, the real deal. We spoke at length via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be an exceptionally serious-minded person. Based on his command of the English language, we suspect that his is a very capable, and reliable, witness. PD
September 5, 2016 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Camdenton, MO
Every night at the same time two objects with different light patterns of flashing red, blue, yellow and white lights slowly come in and hover the back of my property. They remain there for anywhere between 2-4 hours. During this time they sometimes periodically seem to come closer or go farther out in the distance. They even move up and down but stay at a close proximity of where they initially begin to hover. They have been doing this that we know of at least a couple a week's ago, but could be longer. We didn't discover then until a drone was spotted at a very visible level after we heard a buzzing one afternoon over the front of our property. Once we spotted it it flew off to the back of the woods . I believe I heard another one flying in the woods on the same day just a few minutes after but never visibly seen it. Another drone, could have been the same one as before was also spotted again flying over the property line as it hovered above tree line. Of course not sure these are related but the drone was what opened our suspicions where we noticed the lights in the sky that are fairly low and definitely not normal. I believe to of seen tiny white droppings of light fall from one of these objects but no one else has noticed and I'm aware because of the creepiness my mind could be playing tricks on me. Although I am a firm believer in UFOs I'm hesitant to say that this could be one because of the fact they appear every night around the same time and they are at a constant hover. I believe this could be a drone case, but my research shows no investigations or surveillance using drones of this flight power in or around this area. If I can get a camera that can clearly record or photograph these objects I will send them in along with the date and times they are taken.
May 24, 2016 · 9:15 PM · CHEVRON
Camdenton, MO
On May 24, 2016, at approximately 21:15 hrs., I noticed in the night sky bright off white lights similar to light bulbs on a fixture bar, the lights were in a slight chevron shape. When I observed the lights in the north western sky, I noticed they were well above the tree line in the distance, yet very bright. I saw the lights for about 5 seconds, then called for my husband to look out the front of our house. I watched the lights for about another 3-5 seconds then moved to my husband’s location about 25 feet from my observation point. The lights were gone by the time I arrived at my husbands’ location. When I saw my husband I said that couldn’t have been a plane, and my husband immediately said that was no plane. We agreed if it had been a plane as large as what we observed, we would have heard engine noise or something as it passed. We noted the stillness of the moment, very quiet outside. We continued to watch the night sky for a minute or two before going inside. We determined what we saw was not from spot lights projecting in the air or any plane, helicopter or luminaries. My husband has a private pilot’s license, has law enforcement experience, and I am a retired law enforcement Deputy with almost 36 years of service. My husband and I are familiar with helicopters’ and airplanes; we are night sky watchers and look for the satellites going through the sky. This is the second time we have seen lights which made no sense to us and felt like it is necessary to file a report. We are located in central Missouri the area we live in is called Lake of the Ozarks, our home is located south of the Camdenton Memorial Airport. We are in the flight zone for the airport so we are familiar with aircraft landing and taking off. The ground winds from my personal observations were slight the evening was clear with a few clouds in the sky. The Emergency Management Office was able to tell me the winds aloft on the evening of May 24th., 2016 at 5,000 feet were from SS-W at 30-35 knots. The following is my husbands’ written account of what he observed. “On Tuesday, May 24th., 2016 at approximately 9:15 p.m. my wife called out for me to look outside at lights she was seeing. As I walked out of the house looking north to north west, I saw a line of bright yellowish looking lights at about the 2:00 position in the sky. The lights seemed to be pulsating from right to left the objects was stationary then left the area in a very fast departure after a few seconds. I estimate what I saw was 5 to 10 miles away and possibly 500 or more feet across, I could not see definitions of top to bottom only left to right. I am somewhat familiar with identifying objects in the air as I have had flight training and have my private pilots certificate. I also have law enforcement experience; it was not a plane or helicopter.”
May 23, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Camdenton, MO
They were circular and were nearly touching when all lit. They lit one right after another and then winked out simultaneously. They relit following the same pattern. Then nearly immediately relit farther to the North. We discussed this and cannot explain it. We blew it off but have seen it again June 7, and June 8. A total of 8 witnesses have seen this now and we expect to see it again. We watch each night since June 7 by 9:30. They looked like Roman candle flares, but did not move and were so precisely placed that they must be on an object. A10 jets fly here, I wonder if whiteman AFB has an explanation.
January 27, 2016 · 6:07 PM · CONE
Camdenton, MO
Just at dusk I was heading in from chores. I noticed a very unusual object high in the sky to the southeast of my home. It appeared to be a cone shaped object with bright red, blue and clear lights on it. It appeared that the lights were blinking or revolving. The object was stationary as I studied it in relation to the tree limbs. I first told my wife, who came out to observe it as well. At 18:13 I placed a call to the Camden Co. Sheriff's Dept. and reported it. A few minutes later, I called a friend from Lebanon, MO. He went searched the sky, but could not see anything. He stated he had seen something similar several times from his previous address, appearing to be over the Ft. Leonard Wood Area. I could not locate my field glasses to get a better look. However, I took my rifle out and viewed it through the scope. Even at the distance it was away from me, the shape appeared to be cone shaped. This way of viewing, it appeared to be spinning slowly, making the multi-colored lights appear to be blinking. I did not hear any sound, even though I heard several jets pass by while viewing it. I returned outside at 21:00, observing it was still in the same place and still looks the same. I hope others observed this and can explain what it was. Possible sighting of Sirius, we suspect?? PD
August 14, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Camdenton, MO
Three of us saw a very bright red light with a smaller white light at Cedar Heights Condominiums. The red object moved slowly West. We lost sight of the white moving light. We heard no sound. Source of report corrected the date to August 14. PD