CaseFireball2012
Ballwin, MO, USA
It was red, orange and yellow. It made no noise. I followed it and it disappeared right in front of me.My phone took ok pictures bu
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-29
- Where
- Ballwin, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.595, -90.546 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ballwin-mo-2012-902c3d
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In context
- Ballwin, MO shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 177 reports came from Missouri in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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