UFOMYST
CaseOval1997

Boundary Waters, MN, USA

Bright blue light appeared across lake then shot off.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-12
Where
Boundary Waters, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 sec.
Geo
—
Slug
oval-over-boundary-waters-mn-1997-d78396
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Boundary Waters, MN has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 28 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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