Mankato, MN, USA
((HOAX??)) The craft made things slow down and we blacked out a few seconds after we saw said craft.
Report quality: Low17/100
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: 16200s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2011-05-27
- Where
- Mankato, MN, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 4-5 hours
- Geo
- 44.159, -94.009 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-mankato-mn-2011-878078
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
- One of 13 documented reports from Mankato, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 82 sightings in 2011.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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