CaseFireball2016
Lake Crystal, MN, USA
Red glow on the horizon. Thought a house/barn was on fire. Called husband (in law enforcement, working at the time). No fire reported.
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-06
- Where
- Lake Crystal, MN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 44.106, -94.219 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-crystal-mn-2016-b9d7ac
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Crystal, MN.
- This case is one of 85 Minnesota reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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