UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Saucer Shaped Craft, Late 70's in suburban Minneapolis, around 9pm. seen at extremely close range of 40 feet

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 (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-10
Where
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 minute
Geo
44.980, -93.264 · exact
Slug
disk-over-minneapolis-mn-1977-0d241b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Minneapolis, MN shows up 143 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Minnesota in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.