CaseLight1957

St. Paul, MN, USA

A witness in St. Paul, Minnesota reported a bright light apparently being chased by several military jets, over about 45 seconds in October 1957.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (145 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1957-10-05
Where
St. Paul, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 secs
Geo
44.944, -93.093 · exact
Slug
light-over-st-paul-mn-1957-69db51

In context

  • St. Paul, MN shows up 69 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Minnesota in 1957.
  • In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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