CaseLight1997

St. Louis (St. Ann), MO, USA

July 4, around 10:30pm. Shooting fireworks w/children in backyard. Instantainous bright blue light in sky caught my eye. As I turned to

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: 30s, 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
St. Louis (St. Ann), MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds ??
Geo
38.627, -90.198 · exact
Slug
light-over-st-louis-st-ann-mo-1997-5e53c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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In context

  • St. Louis (St. Ann), MO shows up 1 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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