UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

St. Paul, MN, USA

"Chrome" ball over the cliffs of St. Paul

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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-04
Where
St. Paul, MN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
35 seconds
Geo
44.944, -93.093 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-paul-mn-1997-db3b4e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 69 reports logged in St. Paul, MN.
  • This case is one of 28 Minnesota reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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