Austin, MN, USA
i was traveling northbound on state highway 105 approximately 8 miles south of Austin MN when an object came down directly above my car
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-10
- Where
- Austin, MN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-hour
- Geo
- 43.667, -92.975 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-austin-mn-1997-81a73c
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
- Austin, MN shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from Minnesota in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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