Bridgeton, MO, USA
Dark rectangular object ascended into the sky near St. Louis International airport
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-12
- Where
- Bridgeton, MO, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.767, -90.412 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-bridgeton-mo-2010-68c3ef
Part of a wave
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
- Bridgeton, MO shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 118 reports came from Missouri in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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