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October 8th 1978 Missouri: A grandmother and her grandchild spot a mysterious object in the field, an object that doesn’t belong there … ‘The object leaps about ten feet straight up into the air, and this thing is only like four feet in diameter, and all the people are screaming, and it’s hovering there ten feet above the ground’ … It merges with a second much larger cylindrical-shaped UFO in the sky … The craters were about an inch and a quarter deep. UFO Files s4e1: UFOs of the 70s, History 2007
Missouri Case File, Project Identification 1970s, South-East State University 1973: A UFO flap … These plasma orbs are similar to the lights of Blue that would appear in Missouri forty years later … These orbs behave in unusual and unexpected ways. Hunting UFOs: Investigating Hotspots, History 2020
February 21st 1973, Piedmont, Missouri, USA [viz also Mississippi]: ‘What they see, maybe 200 yards away at the most, is an object hovering very low over the field; they see four specific lights’ … Close Encounters s2e14
The Piedmont UFO Flap of 1973. Local authorities receive more than 500 reports of possible UFO sightings. ibid.