Marietta, MN, USA
"Star" glows orange and spins in vortex, flies off at great speed.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-27
- Where
- Marietta, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 45.008, -96.418 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-marietta-mn-2013-45e68c
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…
Local cluster
Marietta, MN logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2013.
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Marietta, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 126 sightings in 2013.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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