CaseFireball2005

Wentzville, MO, USA

Blue/white streak in Southern sky traveling East to West parallel to the horizon.

Report quality: Moderate57/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-04-04
Where
Wentzville, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
38.811, -90.853 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wentzville-mo-2005-7bbc96
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Wentzville, MO has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 77 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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