Vadnais Heights, MN, USA
Silver flash in clear sky that appeared for 2-3 seconds, then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-20
- Where
- Vadnais Heights, MN, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 45.057, -93.074 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-vadnais-heights-mn-2015-4f1f86
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Vadnais Heights, MN.
- This case is one of 152 Minnesota reports filed in 2015.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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