UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Prior Lake, MN, USA

Strange Minnesota Lights Explanation. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the lights were from a casino. PD))

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-09
Where
Prior Lake, MN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1
Geo
44.713, -93.423 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-prior-lake-mn-2015-f8d2f7
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 has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 152 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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