CaseSphere1999
Grand Marais, MN, USA
In late August, 1999, my wife and I were staying at a cabin on the ridge overlooking Lake Superior just outside Grand Marais, Minnesota
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-16
- Where
- Grand Marais, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 14-16 minutes
- Geo
- 47.750, -90.334 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-grand-marais-mn-1999-fc93e4
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Grand Marais, MN.
- This case is one of 35 Minnesota reports filed in 1999.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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