CaseFormation2013

Lake St. Louis, MO, USA

Observed (4) unique red orbs that disappeared and arrived and drifted unlike an aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: Suspected lanterns. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-11-30
Where
Lake St. Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
7-10 minutes
Geo
38.798, -90.786 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lake-st-louis-mo-2013-6cf96a
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

  • Lake St. Louis, MO has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 112 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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