
Unidentified Object Over Joplin, Missouri ‘Size of Large House’
It seems like most unidentified object sightings are typically small in size. That was not the case for an object just spotted over Joplin, Missouri that was described as being the size of a large house.
This is the first official UFO report I've seen for Missouri in 2025 on the National UFO Reporting Center website. This encounter happened during the early evening hours of January 4, 2020 just after 6pm local time near Joplin, Missouri. Here are the exact words of the Missouri man who filed the report:
"While driving with my wife tonight, she pointed and said "Hey, there's one of your UFO's." I looked up and saw a triangular craft with changing lights on each of the tips of the 3 corners. It was completely still, hovering in the air as if it was just hanging by a rope. No sound no movement. As soon as I started recording it began to change shapes and rotated between oval and spherical. It also then started switching between metallic and a red/black color. I turned off my recording as we attempted to turn around and head towards it, but after we turned around it was suddenly approximately 5 miles away. In an instant. Unfortunately I didn't get to see it fly , just saw it far away suddenly and then I just couldn't see it anymore. The lights were gone, it was gone. Last seen near/above the shoal creek area in Joplin, MO."
He also shared a picture and video of what he witnessed that you can watch on the National UFO Reporting Center website. He admits that it might have been a drone, but that it changed shape and colors during the time he saw it which does NOT sound like a drone.
I've watched his video and while it could be a drone, it looks a little too large in my opinion. The only thing we can know for sure at this point is this object over Joplin remains unidentified (and weird). It just makes you wonder what the intentions of these visitors might be.
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