CaseFireball1997
St. Paul, MN, USA
An orange "shooting star" in the SSE area of the sky.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-28
- Where
- St. Paul, MN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 secs., max
- Geo
- 44.944, -93.093 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-st-paul-mn-1997-b96377
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- St. Paul, MN shows up 69 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from Minnesota in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.