Sphere over North Mankato, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On June 17 at about 11:00 or 12:00 in North Mankato, Minnesota, I witnessed a red glowing orb hovering in a tree about 100 or 150 feet from my house. I was looking eastward and it was on the west side of the tree. I witnessed it for about 15 seconds, it was standing still and pulsed brighter two times, then it quickly flew from the tree southward leaving a red trail of light about 10 or 20 feet long and disappeared all together. It was hard to tell the size of the object as it was illuminated, but i would guess it could have been the size of a golf ball at the smallest and no larger than a basketball. These are the google maps coordinates exactly where it was 44.17xxxx, -94.03xxxx We spoke with the source of the report, and he sounded eloquent and sober-minded, in our opinion. We suspect his is a good, and reliable, witness.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110341). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-06-14 → 2014-07-01
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