CaseChevron2016

Shoreview, MN, USA

While out walking I saw slow moving bright objects that seemed to form shapes. After 10 min. they changed direction and disappeared

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-31
Where
Shoreview, MN, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
45.079, -93.147 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-shoreview-mn-2016-030f5b
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…

In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Shoreview, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 85 sightings in 2016.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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