CaseLight1997

St. Louis, MO, USA

Rapidly moving blue-green in sky over fireworks spectators

Report quality: Moderate62/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
St. Louis, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 second
Geo
38.627, -90.198 · exact
Slug
light-over-st-louis-mo-1997-519791
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of St. Louis, MO in July 1997 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • St. Louis, MO has 239 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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