CaseFireball1953
Berkeley, MO, USA
A witness in Berkeley, Missouri reported a fireball-shaped object in the sky for about five minutes in the early 1950s, according to a brief local account.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (155 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-08-01
- Where
- Berkeley, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.755, -90.331 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-berkeley-mo-1953-4f74eb
In context
- Berkeley, MO shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Missouri in 1953.
- In the 1950s, 3.9% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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