UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1997

St. Louis, MO, USA

Observed cylinder shaped object hovering 30feet or less over hwy 40 west 2 miles west of downtown. Object was dark colored, no lights,

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-03
Where
St. Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.627, -90.198 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-st-louis-mo-1997-3d67f8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • St. Louis, MO has 239 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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