CaseFireball2004

St. Louis, MO, USA

tailing large fire ball travling from SE to NW at a high rate of speed. Faster then a jet or aircraft. Teardrop with largeest part in t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-30
Where
St. Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
6sec
Geo
38.627, -90.198 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-louis-mo-2004-aa154e
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

  • St. Louis, MO shows up 239 times across the archive.
  • 80 reports came from Missouri in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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