NUFORC Sighting 180646

Occurred: 1987-08-31 16:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-03-01 12:22 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds maximum
No of observers: 15

Location: Oak Grove, MO, USA
Location details: Traveling East on 1-70 near Oak Grove, heading to Columbia.

Shape: Disk
Color: Metallic - Bright
Estimated Size: 40 feet across, 10-15 high
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East x NE, then arched and directly in front and then shot off East x SE but nearly overhead
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 150 feet
Estimated Speed: Like an asteroid decending, ascending faster
Characteristics: Lights on object

While traveling from KC to Columbia, a bright object shot descended fast towards car, nearly hitting us and shot off out of sight

I had been in Phoenix visiting family. My mom picked me up at airport. She let me drive leaving KC to Columbia to stay at relatives. At around 4:30 while traveling outside KC, I noticed a very bright steaking object out of the corner of my eye. I was probably going @60mph (speed limit was 55 at that time). As it traveled I noticed it appeared to get arc/loop and I noticed it heading towards the car over !-70. I started to brake but didn't skid. I might have slowed to 40mph or less. At its closest it was maybe 100-200 feet away, about 20 ft directly over the highway. At its closest time seemed to stand still. I noticed it shudder, like it was vibrating, shaking a little slow and then shot off out of sight in 2 seconds it was out of sight. I noticed a lot of vehicles pull off road, slow down, etc. My mom and I didn't say a word until 10-15 minutes later. I said - "Did you see that" She said, "I thought it was going to hit the car". I said, "Me too". Then we didn't talk for another 10 to 20 minutes. It was surreal. Eventually we started chatting. I said I regretted not pulling off the road. We talked about all the witnesses and how we thought it was going to hit us. We talked about how time slowed down and it did too, when at its closest and it vibrated. It was so fast when it shot off. We told my Aunt about it (her sister) who didn't seem convinced. I told a lot of people at high school a day or two later. In college (3 years later) I did a speech on it complete with drawings which I will try to find and edit that as needed. My Speech professor (NE Missouri St) gave me an A, said she believed me. She told me her son-in-law was an air force engineer and he had worked on one trying to reverse engineer it for the government. She said she was told it worked on some sort of electro gravity principle.

Posted 2024-03-13