Casecylinder1997
St. Louis, MO, USA
A long, finger-shaped, metal object hovered over the creek behind my house for several minutes.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-07
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- cylinder
- Duration
- about 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-st-louis-mo-1997-e61e93
Wave
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 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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