Makinen, MN, USA
Clear sky, fireball the size of a basketball in the sky Philo about a thousand feet above the treeline in unison one after another abou
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-02
- Where
- Makinen, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 47.357, -92.368 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-makinen-mn-2015-67cdd7
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
- Makinen, MN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 152 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.