CaseCircle1949
Excelsior, MN, USA
large ball of brite light above pine trees lighting up the tops of trees.Almost directly above my father who took one photo.Then object
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-08-15
- Where
- Excelsior, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 44.903, -93.566 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-excelsior-mn-1949-967e9b
In context
- Excelsior, MN has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1949 brought 1 reports from Minnesota.
- The 1940s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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