UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Eden Prairie, MN, USA

Circle of orb lights seen in the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights from nearby casino. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-03-12
Where
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
44.855, -93.471 · exact
Slug
circle-over-eden-prairie-mn-2016-c860a2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Eden Prairie, MN has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 85 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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