CaseSphere1998
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Object just sat in the air glowing brightly, then dimmed. There seemed to be no pattern to it.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-28
- Where
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 44.980, -93.264 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-minneapolis-mn-1998-308ba8
In context
- Minneapolis, MN shows up 143 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Minnesota in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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