UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Blaine, MN, USA

Witnessed with my two children a spinning orange orb that spinner for several seconds before shooting straight up into the sky.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-21
Where
Blaine, MN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
45.161, -93.235 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-blaine-mn-2020-ca7346
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

  • Blaine, MN shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 119 reports came from Minnesota in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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