CaseFlash2015

Richmond, MN, USA

Looking S near Richmond, MN. It was a horizontal flash, larger than a jet in three separate jagged lines...not lightning.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-31
Where
Richmond, MN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
45.454, -94.518 · exact
Slug
flash-over-richmond-mn-2015-f66ba2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Richmond, MN.
  • This case is one of 152 Minnesota reports filed in 2015.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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