Rectangle over Collins, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
One hovering white lights on it . moving east to west up down side to side no noise then came back east call my parents to step out on porch to look they seen it took pictures video .he took some tried calling other neighbor's but not home then it went back west then another one came up higher in the sky up the valley from the west then went northwest then out of sight the first one kept going on West down the valley low till it was out of sight lasted about twenty minutes or so quite a eventful night called Whiteman Air Force Base they said call local Pd so call St Clair Co dispatch made a report they had not had any other calls yet pretty wild.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174043). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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