UFOMYST
CaseLight1989

St. Joseph, MO, USA

orange florecent or glowing light the shape of a doorway seen above large tree , and feeling like something happened to us.

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-15
Where
St. Joseph, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 seconds?
Geo
39.769, -94.847 · exact
Slug
light-over-st-joseph-mo-1989-5069eb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • St. Joseph, MO has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 9 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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