UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Chesterfield, MO, USA

Above us a bright bluish light appeared which lit up the sky then diminished to nothing.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Chesterfield, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
38.663, -90.577 · exact
Slug
light-over-chesterfield-mo-1997-73502f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Chesterfield, MO shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 59 reports came from Missouri in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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