St. Ann, MO, USA
While traveling W on St. Charles Rock Rd I saw what looked like a ball of fire fly across the sky.((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor??PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-12-08
- Where
- St. Ann, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.727, -90.383 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-st-ann-mo-2006-4a7f7b
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in St. Ann, MO.
- This case is one of 71 Missouri reports filed in 2006.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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