CaseRectangle1978

North Branch (south of), MN, USA

That thing was not built around here

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-11-21
Where
North Branch (south of), MN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.511, -92.980 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-north-branch-south-of-mn-1978-fc2a5f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from North Branch (south of), MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 5 sightings in 1978.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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