UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Earth City, MO, USA

MANY PEOPLE REPORTED THIS THEN IT WAS HUSHED UP

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Earth City, MO, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
38.769, -90.468 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-earth-city-mo-1997-f4058a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Earth City, MO.
  • This case is one of 59 Missouri reports filed in 1997.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.3% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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