CaseOval1950
Cook, MN, USA
A witness in Cook, Minnesota reported a huge, oval-shaped object with faint lights at its base that hovered silently before moving rapidly toward the horizon in September 1950.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (176 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-09-10
- Where
- Cook, MN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.852, -92.690 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cook-mn-1950-6bc36d
In context
- Cook, MN has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1950 brought 1 reports from Minnesota.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.