St. Louis, MO, USA
Rapidly moving blue-green in sky over fireworks spectators
Report quality: Moderate62/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 38.627, -90.198 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-st-louis-mo-1997-519791
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of St. Louis, MO in July 1997 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- St. Louis, MO has 239 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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