CaseOval1954

St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO, USA

EXTREMELY bright, red oval near airport. Object suddenly accelerates and STREAKS over horizon.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (94 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1954-07-01
Where
St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 sec.
Geo
Slug
oval-over-st-louis-airport-lambert-field-mo-1954-5c23cb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1954

    The Great French Wave

    France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America

    The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…

In context

  • St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Missouri in 1954.
  • In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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