CaseFireball2020

Oronoco, MN, USA

about 6:35pm I went out side with my little brother to use our Orion telescope to look at the moon and stars. We both saw and orange lo

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-28
Where
Oronoco, MN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 hours
Geo
44.166, -92.535 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-oronoco-mn-2020-cb5114
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…

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Oronoco, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 119 sightings in 2020.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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