Fergus Falls, MN, USA
Woman reports witnessing a "bright red sphere" in the southern sky, viewed from her home.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-20
- Where
- Fergus Falls, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 60 sec.
- Geo
- 46.283, -96.078 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fergus-falls-mn-2005-538270
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Fergus Falls, MN reports filed in May 2005.
In context
- Fergus Falls, MN shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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