UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop1978

Zimmerman (3 miles east of), MN, USA

Was it childhood imagination or real?

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Zimmerman (3 miles east of), MN, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
45.443, -93.590 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-zimmerman-3-miles-east-of-mn-1978-919424
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Zimmerman (3 miles east of), MN has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 5 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 1970s skewed 0.4% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.