UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Lake Crystal, MN, USA

Red glow on the horizon. Thought a house/barn was on fire. Called husband (in law enforcement, working at the time). No fire reported.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-06
Where
Lake Crystal, MN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.106, -94.219 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lake-crystal-mn-2016-b9d7ac
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Crystal, MN.
  • This case is one of 85 Minnesota reports filed in 2016.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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