UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Brainerd, MN, USA

Levitating chrome sphere over ehrons or Aarons hill by civic center. Stayed still and reflected the lights from town.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
Brainerd, MN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
46.358, -94.201 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-brainerd-mn-1997-fe945c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Brainerd, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 28 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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