Faribault, MN, USA
Moving bright light, no sound, changing to rusty red dot and then disappearing.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-15
- Where
- Faribault, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.295, -93.269 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-faribault-mn-2015-339b80
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
- Faribault, MN has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 152 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.