CaseFormation2008

St. Louis, MO, USA

Formation of 9-12 points of light with another object in the middle covered with five lights in a diamond pattern.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-31
Where
St. Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.627, -90.198 · exact
Slug
formation-over-st-louis-mo-2008-56e52e
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

  • This is one of 239 reports logged in St. Louis, MO.
  • This case is one of 107 Missouri reports filed in 2008.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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