A Missouri man’s extraordinary video of a mysterious cube-shaped UFO spinning like a disco ball in broad daylight continues to baffle experts and officials three years after the encounter, with no conventional explanation found despite extensive investigation.
Justin Johnson captured the stunning footage on his phone while driving home from work in Springfield, Missouri, showing a silver, cube-shaped object with lights rotating in place several hundred feet above the city. The incident has gained renewed attention as part of a growing wave of unexplained aerial phenomena sightings across the state.
“That Thing’s a Cube with Lights!”
Johnson’s excitement is clearly audible on the video as he spots the unusual object. “It’s a cube!” he shouts. “That thing’s a cube with lights!” The footage shows what appears to be a metallic, cube-shaped craft spinning like a disco ball while hovering motionless in the sky.
The 30-year-old electrician initially thought he was seeing a local hospital helicopter, but as he got closer, the object’s unusual shape and behavior became apparent. “When I first spotted it, I thought it was one of our local hospital helicopters because it’s not that unusual to see them,” Johnson explained. “As I got closer, it kinda started to look like trash blowing through the air.”
But this was no ordinary debris. The object maintained its position for several minutes before flying away in a controlled manner, following what Johnson described as a “v-shaped arc” over the city before pausing over downtown where he managed to capture the remarkable footage.
Extensive Investigation Yields No Answers
Johnson didn’t just film the encounter and walk away. He launched his own investigation, reaching out to various officials and experts seeking answers. The results only deepened the mystery.
Weather balloon operators confirmed the object didn’t belong to them. Air traffic controllers told Johnson they had no record of anything in the sky near that location on that date. The Federal Aviation Administration showed no aircraft in the area during the time of the sighting.
Johnson noted that according to weather records, the object was flying against the wind that day, ruling out the possibility it was a balloon or debris. “Plus the Federal Aviation Administration said they showed nothing in that area during that time,” he said.
Failed Chase Adds to Mystery
After hovering for several minutes at what Johnson estimated was a few hundred feet altitude, the object began moving away. Johnson attempted to follow it in his pickup truck but quickly lost sight of the mysterious craft.
“This thing has haunted me after witnessing it,” Johnson admitted. “I’ve never seen a drone like that and couldn’t understand how it would stay in the air with that much flipping.”
The controlled nature of the object’s movement and its ability to maintain stability while spinning rapidly has puzzled experts who have reviewed the footage.
Part of Broader Missouri UFO Wave
Johnson’s cube sighting isn’t an isolated incident. Missouri has experienced a surge of UFO reports in recent years, with multiple unexplained objects captured on video across the state.
Just weeks before his story gained national attention, Johnson recorded another unexplained sighting – white light objects in the sky at sunrise that didn’t appear to be conventional aircraft. Other Missouri residents have reported similar encounters, including a thin white object filmed zooming across the sky near a passenger jet.
The pattern of sightings has caught the attention of UFO researchers and prompted the launch of new investigation platforms designed to collect and analyze such reports.
New Technology Seeking Answers
Johnson has uploaded his videos to Enigma, a new app launched in May that calls itself “the first Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) reporting platform.” The app has already collected nearly 20,000 videos and UFO sighting reports from around the world.
UFO researcher Alejandro Rojas, who works with the platform, acknowledges the challenge of analyzing so many reports. “There are a lot of great possibilities out there. But we just don’t know. We really need to follow that data to figure it out,” Rojas said.
However, Rojas urges caution in interpreting these sightings. “The vast majority of sightings that we get are misinterpretations of something mundane,” he noted, though Johnson’s case has proven resistant to conventional explanations.
Government Technology or Something Else?
Johnson has his own theories about what he witnessed. “I really couldn’t tell you what it was, but it’s nothing publicly known about,” he said. “If I had to put money on a guess, it would be otherworldly origins or secret government tech.”
The cube shape is particularly intriguing, as it doesn’t match typical aircraft designs or known drone configurations. According to the National UFO Reporting Center, cube-shaped UFOs represent a small but consistent category of sightings, with 90 reports collected over decades of investigations.
Similar Sightings Emerge
When Johnson shared his video online, it revealed other witnesses with similar experiences. “This is consistent with an object I saw last week in Los Angeles,” wrote one viewer, suggesting the phenomenon may be more widespread than initially thought.
The consistency of cube-shaped UFO reports across different locations and time periods has caught the attention of researchers studying patterns in unexplained aerial phenomena.
