UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Elsberry, MO, USA

MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: My family and I witnessed the strange lights.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Elsberry, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
39.167, -90.781 · exact
Slug
light-over-elsberry-mo-1978-8332f0
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Elsberry, MO.
  • This case is one of 11 Missouri reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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