Minneapolis, MN, USA
Orange objects over south Minneapolis sky
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-19
- Where
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.980, -93.264 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-minneapolis-mn-2012-03acd1
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Minneapolis, MN in August 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Minneapolis, MN has 143 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 145 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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