St. Louis, MO, USA
We had just moved into our new home and could not sleep. At approx. 3:00 a.m. I noticed a glowing object in the eastern sky at about h
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-22
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- approx 1 hr
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-st-louis-mo-1997-351b60
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…
In context
- St. Louis, MO has 239 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
- The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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