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CaseSphere1997

St. Charles (outside of St. Louis), MO, USA

St. Charles, MO, before fireworks show. A blue ball (??) of lightstreaked across the sky, I'd say east to west. There was no noise.It j

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: 5s, 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. Charles (outside of St. Louis), MO, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
38.784, -90.481 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-charles-outside-of-st-louis-mo-1997-82a396
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in St. Charles (outside of St. Louis), MO.
  • This case is one of 59 Missouri reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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