Fireball over St. Peters, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Started going down right over the tree line and was no longer visable. We called 911 and St. Charles County police in Mo. Came out after we reported it. We told them what we saw and they said the would look into it. We had no camera to take pictures all cell phones were inside. Did not have time to go grab a cell to snap pictures/videos. It was around 10:00 p.m..
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142635). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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June 17, 2017 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
St. Peters, MO
At 10:30 pm this evening I went outside in my back yard to secure the patio furniture for incoming storms that were predicted. The rear of my house faces due north. I looked up into the sky and saw lightning far off in the distance towards the north. I then noticed two red balls of light traveling from the west (approximately along the path of I-70) moving to the east at a fairly rapid speed. At first I thought it might be a helicopter, or two. As they came closer, I heard no sound from any type of engine. Two lights travelling the same distance apart in the same path. Red orange in color, not blinking, but solid the entire time. As they came from the west, about the time they were directly behind my home, the lead light turned due north and appeared to gain altitude, fading from view, possibly behind clouds. The second light followed the exact same path as the first one, and also disappeared. About two to three minutes later, from the south west of my home, and closer to my home, I saw three additional lights, the exact same appearance as the first two. The first two were closer together, with the third one trailing a bit behind. I called my wife out to see what I was seeing, and to bring her cell phone to take pictures. She arrived, and confirmed that she was seeing what I was seeing. She tried to take pictures, but they did not turn out very well. Again, the three objects followed the same path of the first two, and turned due north, fading away from my view. No sound of any engine was ever heard, no other color of light was ever seen other than the red/orange solid light color. At first I thought it might be a Japanese lantern display of some kind, but the objects were moving too fast, and the winds were from the northeast, the opposite direction that the objects were moving. The two separate groups maintained a distinct separation distance from each other, and equal speed. Hot air Japanese lanterns would not behave this way. Aircraft routinely fly over our home as they move into the landing pattern for St. Louis Int. Airport Lambert Field. I know what an aircraft looks and sounds like, and how it behaves. I do not believe these objects to have been aircraft. I am not a believer in aliens, or UFO’s. I like to believe that there is a logical explanation for what my wife and I both clearly saw in the sky this evening. See attached jpg map of the flight path of these objects
June 10, 2017 · 9:00 PM · DISK
St. Peters, MO
there was a round disk shaped ufo hovering and moving at right angles up down left right. was possibly a large drone.
October 14, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
St. Peters, MO
On the night of Friday, October 14, 2016 , I observed the strangest thing that I have ever seen in my life. It was approximately 7:45 pm when I got into my car and started driving over to my girlfriend’s apartment. There was not a cloud in the sky and the Moon was completely full, actually appearing more full than I have ever seen it. No less than five minutes into driving I noticed some strange lights in the sky that immediately caught my eye. Straight ahead in the sky above were several strange lights scattered everywhere. Four lights in particular intrigued me so much that I could not stop swerving in and out of my lane, due to the fact that I couldn’t take my eyes off the sky. Four lights arranged themselves very close to each other and seemed to be pulsating, fading in and out. It appears to be a disc shaped flying saucer. As I continue to watch it I noticed several more lights in the sky. There were lights glowing to the left and to the right of the d! isc, and a pretty good distance away from it. These lights moved in ways that are impossible for any aircraft we know today. One light shot straight up at an incredible rate of speed. The other light zigzagged and changed directions instantly. More lights then appear on the left side of the sky darting off at high rates of speed. At this point there are so many different glowing lights in the sky I don’t know which ones to look at. All the while the four lights in the center of the sky continued to pulsate and stay in the same position, never moving from their original location. At this point I take out my phone and record a video of the sky. The video is seven seconds long, this is only because while I was recording I looked at the screen and it didn’t appear that the lights were showing up on the video. I then became extremely disappointed and stopped recording the video. It took 15 minutes to get to my girlfriends apartment and I could see these lights the entire time th! at I was driving. After that I went into her apartment and did! n’t look at the sky anymore that night. I tried telling my girlfriend about it and she didn’t really understand what I had just saw and didn't show too much interest. I didn’t even try to show her the video because I was sure it didn’t record anything. After that we watched a movie and went to bed. The next day I was scrolling through my photos and decided to watch the video, I was stunned. I will share the video my phone recorded with everyone, take a look yourself. Also, the video is even more amazing if you turn the brightness up and play it in slow motion. I also saved a version of the video in slow-motion with the brightness turned up. I will also share that one. I’m not sure what these lights were and I’m not even assuming they were extraterrestrial. All I know is they were not human made lights and they were anything but ordinary and completely not normal. In addition, I have never been a person who exaggerates, lies, or seeks attention. Everybody who knows me would tell you that. I am 29 years old, I have a college degree from a very good university and I have no history of any medical or psychological problems. Anybody driving on the road at night would have seen these lights, yet nothing was mentioned on the news, and nobody I've come across saw them. I've shown a few people in my family the video, and they are puzzled too. Unlike me, they didn’t see what I did so they pretty much forget about it. On the other hand I can't forget about it or stop thinking about it. I will share the video. Watch it closely and don’t just watch it once. Trust me you will start to notice more and more strangeness when you watch it again and again. Lastly, free to tell me what you think, or even guess this might be.
August 12, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
St. Peters, MO
We thought it was a plane falling from the sky, but as it became closer to the ground we realized the bright lit red ball did not have wings and was floating at a slower pace to Mid Rivers Mall Drive.
June 28, 2016 · 10:15 PM · DIAMOND
St. Peters, MO
Out my backyard , loking north east out onto midrivers drive. At approx 22:15 a white and red diamond shaped light rose straight up into the air then swayed left to right like a rocking chair then at one point stopped at the left then shot straight to the right diagonally. All the while the red and white lights kept changing spots as it rocked but turned completely white as it shot to the right.
June 27, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
St. Peters, MO
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