Orrock, MN, USA
Object leaves sky in a flash, returns in a flash and is followed by another object
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-09
- Where
- Orrock, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 Minutes
- Geo
- 45.444, -93.736 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-orrock-mn-2008-1b72da
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…
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Orrock, 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.