St. Louis, MO, USA
Black spot low on South St. Louis sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-10
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20-30 mins
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-st-louis-mo-2008-8a9861
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of St. Louis, MO in August 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- St. Louis, MO has 239 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 107 reports from Missouri.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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