UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Maryland Heights, MO, USA

It was shaped like a octagon

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-05
Where
Maryland Heights, MO, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4mins
Geo
38.713, -90.430 · exact
Slug
oval-over-maryland-heights-mo-1997-0cd309
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Maryland Heights, MO has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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