CaseOval2015

Lakeville, MN, USA

2 Oval sets of lights seen in Lakeville, MN Aug 9th 2015 between 23:00-23:45. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-08-09
Where
Lakeville, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
44.650, -93.243 · exact
Slug
oval-over-lakeville-mn-2015-63da55
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Lakeville, MN in August 2015 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Lakeville, MN has 36 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 152 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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