UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Wayzata, MN, USA

Boating on Lake Minnetonka in MN on warm summer night, skies clear, fireball appeared travelling from East to West at about 60 degrees

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-28
Where
Wayzata, MN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
44.974, -93.507 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wayzata-mn-1997-846b1c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Wayzata, MN.
  • This case is one of 28 Minnesota reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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