CaseFlash2017

Saint Louis, MO, USA

Me and my father were sitting down on our back deck at around 2 am. I was around 9 years old when this occurred, we heard a loud vibrat

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-11
Where
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10-20 seconds
Geo
43.408, -84.607 · fallback
Slug
flash-over-saint-louis-mo-2017-824c99
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Saint Louis, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 112 sightings in 2017.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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