CaseSphere1956
Hampton, MN, USA
A commuter near Hampton, Minnesota reported encountering a sphere-shaped object during an ice storm while driving home from work, for a few minutes in March 1956.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-03-22
- Where
- Hampton, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 44.610, -93.002 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hampton-mn-1956-859b8e
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In context
- Hampton, MN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Minnesota in 1956.
- In the 1950s, 5.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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