UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Excelsior, MN, USA

Fireworks and then flying objects with lights

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-07-04
Where
Excelsior, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.903, -93.566 · exact
Slug
light-over-excelsior-mn-2008-606ef5
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

  • Excelsior, MN has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 55 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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