CaseOval1963

Albert Lea, MN, USA

A witness in Albert Lea, Minnesota described a round, blue, glowing oval-shaped object that moved slowly toward them without noise, in a sighting lasting about six minutes in July 1963.

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (185 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1963-07-11
Where
Albert Lea, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
6 min
Geo
43.648, -93.368 · exact
Slug
oval-over-albert-lea-mn-1963-8f31ab

In context

  • Albert Lea, MN has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1963 brought 3 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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