Fridley, MN, USA
While walking from work to car observed a very bright orange shaped object on the just above the horizon. The object appeared stationa
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-12
- Where
- Fridley, MN, USA
- Shape
- sphere
- Duration
- 5-10secs
- Geo
- 45.086, -93.263 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fridley-mn-1997-13e8cd
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
- Fridley, MN has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 28 reports from Minnesota.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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