UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Maple Grove, MN, USA

Orange ball of light flying across maple grove MN. traveling at high speed and made no sound.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-22
Where
Maple Grove, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 min
Geo
45.072, -93.456 · exact
Slug
light-over-maple-grove-mn-2008-b4e8ac
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

  • One of 12 documented reports from Maple Grove, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 55 sightings in 2008.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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