St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO, USA
A witness near Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri reported an extremely bright red oval object that suddenly accelerated and streaked over the horizon, in about 20 seconds, July 1954.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (193 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-07-01
- Where
- St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-st-louis-airport-lambert-field-mo-1954-5c23cb
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field), MO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Missouri in 1954.
- In the 1950s, 6.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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