UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Florissant, MO, USA

Big bright red-orange object flying horizontally at about 5000ft-10000ft rotating slightly as it moved Northeast.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-01
Where
Florissant, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
38.789, -90.323 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-florissant-mo-2016-9a58fb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Florissant, MO shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 112 reports came from Missouri in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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