Fireball over Downtown St. Louis, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It started out as on fireball coming down really slow but it had a trail behind it , so I thought it was a shooting star or something. Then it stopped and split into 3. Right after that 3 more appeared above the first 3. They then began to make a formation and was completely still for about 1 minute then disappeared. I have video footage of all 6 of them, but not when they split and multiplied. There was no sound also.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171859). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-13 → 2022-09-30