CaseOther1997
Lake Winnibigoshish (North Central MN), MN, USA
Brite orange glowing object passed overhead.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-30
- Where
- Lake Winnibigoshish (North Central MN), MN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-lake-winnibigoshish-north-central-mn-mn-1997-29a909
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Winnibigoshish (North Central MN), MN.
- This case is one of 28 Minnesota reports filed in 1997.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.