Fireball over Wright City, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two fireballs coming from the south and a brilliant white light moving in the east
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 2012-03-17 → 2012-04-03
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June 29, 2023 · 5:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Wright City, MO
I was driving eastbound on I-70 in a somewhat rural area. I was talking on the phone and idly looked up at the sky and noticed what looked like 3 perfectly triangular clouds. It was somewhat overcast / partly cloudy, and these 3 perfect triangles were in front of the overcast sky - the same color/texture as the clouds. However, what caught my eye was that they were perfectly sharp/straight, identical in size, and equal distance apart as well as not moving. I was so puzzled and kept blinking and trying to adjust my eyes because it made no sense to see such perfectly straight, sharply angled geometric clouds. It was impossible. The middle triangle began to sort of dim, almost like a flicker, and then all three of them disappeared instantly. They did not fly away, they did not blow away - these 3 triangles completely disappeared in the blink of an eye. I was left feeling deeply confused, fearful, and in shock - it is hard to explain in words what I saw, because it is not consistent with anything I have ever seen before. Whatever those triangles were, they were not clouds. They were defying nature. My sister was on the phone with me the whole time I experienced it. Once I started to realize what they were, I pulled out my camera - I tried pushing a button to record but it would not record. I may have been too shaky and in shock to take my eyes off of it and get my phone recording, though - I wish I was able to capture evidence so I wouldn’t feel so crazy.
July 23, 2022 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Wright City, MO
My son and I were standing in driveway,on a clear day, facing the garage and talking with my brother and his wife, who were standing in the garage. I noticed something shiny floating in the sky, about 100 yards above the garage, moving northwest to southeast. It looked like someone had lost a bundle of Mylar balloons. I called my brother and his wife out of the garage to look. To our surprise, what we thought were balloons, stopped moving across the sky, and started descending in a counter clockwise spiral pattern separated evenly from each other. They dropped in the spiral pattern approximately 30 yards and then paused in a group and just hovered for about 1-2 minutes. The silver looking spheres than started moving southwest, directly over the top of the four of us, while they proceeded to make a v pattern. The silvery spheres than started to change their shape from round to more arrow dynamic at the front, while their color changed to dark black.
July 4, 2010 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Wright City, MO
Wright City, Missouri 21:45PM July 4, 2010 Strange String of Lights That Stayed Lit Roughly 1 Minute in Sky