Hoyt Lakes, MN, USA
A bluish/green sphere dropped out of the sky and was observed at two different locations 65 miles apart.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-21
- Where
- Hoyt Lakes, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 to 3 seconds
- Geo
- 47.520, -92.139 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hoyt-lakes-mn-2008-da2b55
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 1 reports logged in Hoyt Lakes, MN.
- This case is one of 55 Minnesota reports filed in 2008.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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