UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Appleton, MN, USA

I woke up and saw it hovering noiseless over the neighbors horses and the highway. I awoke the whole family

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Appleton, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
45.197, -96.020 · exact
Slug
light-over-appleton-mn-1978-ac5b44
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Appleton, MN.
  • This case is one of 5 Minnesota reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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