UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Hastings, MN, USA

Bright, fast moving, blinking lights up in the sky over Hastings, Minnesota on August 5, 2012 at 10:20 pm.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-05
Where
Hastings, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.743, -92.852 · exact
Slug
light-over-hastings-mn-2012-cf74b5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Hastings, MN shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Minnesota in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate 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.