2000 Triangle UFO Sighting in Missouri

In 2012, I was assigned a MUFON UFO sighting case by an 80-year-old witness who reported a sighting he had on January 5, 2000. Amazingly, it was related to the high-profile case in Illinois which received much media coverage, but until 2012 no one knew that the case actually included the area near Union, Missouri. 

The witness, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that he retired from Law Enforcement after 10 years. He then moved into State Government work for 28 years. After retirement he stepped back into Government work as a consultant. He worked as a Volunteer Asst. Fire Chief for 24 years and was also a member of the Arson squad in a county in Missouri.

On Jan. 5, 2000, the witness was at a nearby township investigating a house fire. At around 3:00 a.m. he walked back to his truck to clean off all the dirt from his boots and turn out gear. He started listening to the two-way radio in his truck and heard radio traffic from the Illinois area. The Illinois County. dispatcher was talking to some police about an unidentified object heading for the St. Louis area.

After about a half hour, the witness headed home on I-44. That's when he picked up the local county dispatcher talking to a Union, MO Police Officer about a large object over Highway. 50 & Highway 47.  He immediately turned down Highway 47 towards Union, MO. As he came over the hill into town, he saw three white lights in the sky about 75-100 feet. apart from each other. In between the round white lights there were multicolored-color lights scrolling back and forth from left to right and back again.

He came down the hill and pulled up behind two Police Officers parked on the side of the road, assuming that they were observing the object as well. 

He could see a very large black triangle-shaped craft with more lights on the bottom of the craft. There was one very bright white light in each corner and one red light in the center towards the back of the craft. The white lights were beaming straight down. The red light was blinking on and off like a radio tower light. He got out of his truck and started walking up to the Police Officers. One officer was from the City of Union, MO the other was a Franklin County. Deputy. Just as he got up to them the craft started to move off to the northeast at a very fast running speed. The two officers got in their respective cars and started to chase the craft.

The officers were using their overhead red lights and the witness caught up to them. The craft had stopped about a mile up the road. He got out of his truck and walked up to the officers and all three men watched the object. As they were watching, the bright spotlight type lights in each corner came down to about 100 feet from the ground and stopped. No light beam touched the ground. They watched the craft for about 10 minutes, then the craft moved again. This time it traveled only about a mile and stopped again. After stopping and getting out to talk with officers once again, he noticed the County officer was trying to talk to the dispatcher by two-way radio. The witness had a portable two-way radio with him and could not pick-up any radio traffic from the County or the officer in front of him. He assumed that the craft affected the radios somehow. The county officer tried to set his dash camera in the up direction towards the craft, but it was bolted and would not turn. The officers had no other cameras with them and were unable to take photos.

The witness said that the craft was directly overhead and about 500 ft.in altitude. The craft was also the width of a football field. The sides in some parts of the craft where about 10-feet. at the corners and moved up to about 20-feet. in the center, making it curved on top and flat across the bottom. As this craft moved again, all radio traffic returned to normal. They could again hear the dispatcher in Illinois.

As the craft moved off for the third time, the County officer looked at both of the other witnesses and said, 
"I have another call pending," got back into his car and drove off, then Union officer said that he was too far out of the city limits. He said, "I don't see a thing," then got back in his car, turned around on old Highway 100 and inexplicably drove off. The witness watched the craft move off until he could not see the lights any longer. It was moving cross country and there were only private roads & driveways. He got back into his truck and drove home, perplexed not only at what he saw and the fact that two officers left the scene.

The witness said that he waited for weeks to see this story in the newspaper or on the TV news, but no one filed a report. Due to the fact that he didn't have a Police report to fall back on, he decided not to talk to anyone about this sighting. Now that he is retired and he keeps hearing reports of triangle UFOs in Missouri, he thought he would bring this story to light in order to help investigators in the future.

This report gives us a more complete understanding of the 2000 Triangle sighting. 

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Margie Kay is the Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON. Contact her at momufonasd@gmail.com.