Golden Valley, MN, USA
Myself, my daughter and her friend were driving in our neighborhood. I was going to make a turn and while I was looking to my left to s
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-10
- Where
- Golden Valley, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.010, -93.349 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-golden-valley-mn-2012-0bb04d
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
- One of 9 documented reports from Golden Valley, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 145 sightings in 2012.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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