CaseFireball1964
St. Louis, MO, USA
A witness in south St. Louis County, Missouri reported a fireball moving from north to south in the sky, in a brief sighting lasting about 10 seconds in August 1964.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-08-15
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 sec
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-st-louis-mo-1964-f6cace
In context
- One of 239 documented reports from St. Louis, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 2 sightings in 1964.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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