UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Fridley, MN, USA

Very large fireball flew over house. No loud noise, just a faint "whoosh" as it passed. Very quick.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-30
Where
Fridley, MN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
45.086, -93.263 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fridley-mn-1997-fd24f7
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Fridley, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 28 sightings in 1997.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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