UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Tom Sauk Moutain, MO, USA

This was January 1, 1997. I was backpacking in the Mark Twain Forest of Missouri. It was about 11pm. I was sitting on a rock in the

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-01
Where
Tom Sauk Moutain, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
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Slug
light-over-tom-sauk-moutain-mo-1997-6a0328
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Tom Sauk Moutain, 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.

Report

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