CaseFormation2013

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
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

  • 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 days

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