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

  • Historical wave1997

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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

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