Apple Valley, MN, USA
Bright light moving quickly, then stops for 30 seconds. Began to move closer (see pics)
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 (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-10
- Where
- Apple Valley, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Recorded 3 mins
- Geo
- 44.732, -93.218 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-apple-valley-mn-2022-58b76c
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
- Apple Valley, MN has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 20 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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