CaseFireball2013

O'Fallon, MO, USA

It was 9:30 PM 4th of July 2013 my husband and I were sitting on our deck watching fireworks and all of a sudden this large red firebal

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
O'Fallon, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
38.811, -90.700 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-o-fallon-mo-2013-3d9b84
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…

In context

  • One of 47 documented reports from O'Fallon, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 112 sightings in 2013.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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