CaseSphere2004
Minneapolis, MN, USA
I seen an object in the sky, thought it was a balloon, but it was too large and too high, in five minutes it barely moved.
Report quality: High81/100
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- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-19
- Where
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 44.980, -93.264 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-minneapolis-mn-2004-85542d
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Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Minneapolis, MN reports filed in August 2004.
In context
- Minneapolis, MN shows up 143 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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