St. Louis, MO, USA
Orange Ball UFO chased by F-4 military fighter jet with abrupt maneuvering by UFO and impossible speeds.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-01
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-st-louis-mo-1965-0b924b
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- St. Louis, MO shows up 239 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Missouri in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.