CaseLight1997
St. Louis, MO, USA
Blue light that shot across the sky horizontally.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 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
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-st-louis-mo-1997-e97869
Wave
Part of a wave
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
July 1997 was a busy month for St. Louis, MO: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 239 reports logged in St. Louis, MO.
- This case is one of 59 Missouri reports filed in 1997.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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