UFOMYST
CaseCigar1965

St. Louis County, MO, USA

I was walking to church very early on the morning of May 5, 1965. Cutting across the rear of the adjacent school parking lot, a bright

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-05-05
Where
St. Louis County, MO, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 to 10 minutes
Geo
38.641, -90.443 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-st-louis-county-mo-1965-a36cff
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  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from St. Louis County, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 7 sightings in 1965.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).

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