Apple Valley, MN, USA
Large halo in the SW sky that was atleast 1/2 mile long and few thousand feet off the ground. No other light was near it and then it ju
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-01
- Where
- Apple Valley, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 44.732, -93.218 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-apple-valley-mn-2012-ae5fd9
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Apple Valley, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 145 sightings in 2012.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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