Forest Lake, MN, USA
Large rectangular object with a white light at each end disrupting the atmosphere around it.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-19
- Where
- Forest Lake, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 45.279, -92.985 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-forest-lake-mn-2014-79bc81
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
- Forest Lake, MN has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 104 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.