UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Prior Lake, MN, USA

Strange lights move across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-16
Where
Prior Lake, MN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
44.713, -93.423 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-prior-lake-mn-2013-bcfe6b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Prior Lake, MN shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 126 reports came from Minnesota in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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