Prior Lake, MN, USA
A bright light that went from moving slowly to extremely fast to stationary and then gone with no sound or acceleration.
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 (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-05
- Where
- Prior Lake, MN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 min. approx.
- Geo
- 44.713, -93.423 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-prior-lake-mn-2008-1bdad7
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
- Prior Lake, MN has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 55 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.