Casesphere1997

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
Wave

Part of a wave

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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 days

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