Triangle over Joplin, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My significant other and our three sons were returning home when all of us saw a strange light that was hovering in one spot in the sky. The light would change shapes and brightness. It formed into a triangular shape, and we could see that it had one light on each of the corner angles. We videotaped it for quite a while. Part of the video is blurry, but you can clearly see the triangle shape in part of the video. I have two post-graduate degrees and am self-employed. My boyfriend spent a decade working for the city. My son is 15 and is in high school, and the other two boys are 10 and 7. All of us saw the object, and we stayed out there as long as we could stand it because it was very cold.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137809). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-12 → 2017-12-29
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