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For some reason, UFOs mostly seem to come in three shapes: the standard flying saucer shape, a sphere or an orb, and a triangle. There aren’t any publicly official numbers on how many each shape get spotted each year, but based on the number of stories that pop up week-to-week, it’s pretty safe to say that those are the three most common UFO shapes that get reported.
The latest report making waves in the UFO community involves the third shape on the list: a triangle. According to an eyewitness account filed with the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), a person in St. Peters, Missouri recently had an encounter at night with a triangular UFO. Luckily, in this case, they were able to take some footage of the UFO.
Eyewitness reports
“I stopped where it stopped and it began to hover and loiter with no noise other than its visible triangular shape,” the eyewitness explained. “It was about 100 feet overhead and a football field length away. It was maneuvering in an odd way. Almost like it was submerged taking banks and angular dives. It would cloak in a ball of light than [sic] reappear nearby elsewhere hovering.”
The witness says this was the third time that they had seen a UFO like this in the area. One of the encounters was during the day time and was “seen by multiple neighbors.” The other sighting was at night over his subdivision and “it was only 50-80 feet high flying low and silently passing overhead,” they wrote.
“Other accounts by neighbors date back to the early 90’s … describing the same thing,” the witness added. “Apparently this area is a hot spot for almost weekly activity for 3 decades. I also see them near Adventist Church or by South High in daylight where the triangles are white and very bright and reflective you see them pop out for a few seconds then go invisible again.”
The UFO Capital of Missouri
Earlier this month, KSDK News reported that Piedmont, Missouri, located about two-and-a-half hours south of St. Peters, was named the UFO Capital of the Show Me State.
“I had a gentleman set at my desk and cry about how things that he has seen have illuminated and changed his life over the years,” said Sara Phillips, executive director of the Piedmont Area Chamber of Commerce. “My husband and I moved back here years ago and he swears he saw some kind of lights.”
“One resident said that if they had to estimate half the residents had seen something in the sky. Clearwater Lake becomes kind of the epicenter of this,” said Sean Rost of the State Historical Society of Missouri. “There are people reporting seeing lights above the water. There are people seeing lights under the water.”
Phillips says there have been over 500 reporting sightings of UFOs in the area and, for some unknown reason, the sightings continue to this day near Clearwater Lake.