Bloomington, MN, USA
At approximately 5:45 pm on Saturday August 21st. I went for a bike ride. I looked up into the sky as I heard a jet over head. I saw th
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-21
- Where
- Bloomington, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 44.841, -93.298 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bloomington-mn-2010-2feed5
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
- This is one of 19 reports logged in Bloomington, MN.
- This case is one of 60 Minnesota reports filed in 2010.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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