PA28 ON IFR FLT PLAN HOLDING OVER UUV AT 3000 FT ENCOUNTERED A JUMP ACFT RETURNING TO THE ARPT.

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WE WERE BEING VECTORED FOR APCH INTO SULLIVAN; MO (UUV). UNDER ZKC CTL; DIRECTED TO HOLD FOR DEPARTING AND ARRIVING TFC. HOLD CLRNC WAS DIRECT TO UUV NDB AND HOLD ON 246 DEG RADIAL UNTIL ADVISED. UUV IS LOCATED ON ARPT UUV. WHILE ENTERING HOLD APPROX 1/4 MI OUT; A COMMANDER ANNOUNCES 10 MINS TILL JUMPERS AWAY. I REFRESHED ATC'S MEMORY AND INFORMED THEM WE WERE OVER ARPT HOLDING IMC AT 3000 FT MSL. PLANE DROPPED JUMPERS AND 5 MINS LATER PASSED UNDERNEATH US FROM 9 TO 3 O'CLOCK POS; BTWN LAYERS. INQUIRED ATC OF TFC AND THEY DENIED SEEING TFC. JUMPERS WOULD HAVE BEEN IMC FROM 4000 FT MSL THROUGH 2000 FT MSL WHICH IS THE ALT I BROKE OUT OF ON APCH IN RWY 24. THIS WAS RPTED TO STL FSDO. CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR SAID HE HELD OVER UUV AT 3000 FT IN CONDITIONS HE CONSIDERED IFR. HE HEARD A PLT ON THE FREQ RPT TO ZKC THAT JUMPERS WOULD BE AWAY IN 10 MINS. HE REMINDED THE CTR CTLR THAT HE WAS IN A HOLDING PATTERN OVER UUV. THE JUMP PLANE PLT CAME ON THE FREQ AND SAID IT SHOULD NOT BE A PROB. A FEW MINS LATER HE WAS PASSED VERY CLOSELY BY A TWIN ENG JUMP PLANE VFR LNDG UUV. THE NEXT DAY THE PA28 PLT SAID HE RPTED THE INCIDENT TO THE FAA.