Lake St. Louis, MO, USA
Observed (4) red orbs that were at different heights and moved very oddly then disappeared. ((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 (91 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-b4ccb4
Part of a wave
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Lake St. Louis, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 112 sightings in 2013.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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