Stillwater, MN, USA
6-7 Orange-ish lights (a few looking like 'fireworks') flew aross the sky from north to south in 'V' formation for 2-3 minutes
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-09
- Where
- Stillwater, MN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.056, -92.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-stillwater-mn-2012-22e3f0
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
- Stillwater, MN has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 145 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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