UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Crestwood (near St. Louis), MO, USA

My wife and I were on our deck watching the fireworks display at Webster Groves Recreation Center, about a mile from our location. A br

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Crestwood (near St. Louis), MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 seconds
Geo
38.557, -90.382 · exact
Slug
light-over-crestwood-near-st-louis-mo-1997-cbe1d9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Crestwood (near St. Louis), MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 59 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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