New Hope, MN, USA
((HOAX??)) Appeared two times now, Very bright red,orage,maroon, Then shoots off across the sky.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-12-13
- Where
- New Hope, MN, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 10-15 mins
- Geo
- 45.038, -93.387 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-new-hope-mn-2008-cd67d5
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
- New Hope, MN shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 55 reports came from Minnesota in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.