UFOMYST
CaseCigar2005

Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN, USA

4 sets of light lines moving at 50 degree angles on the horizon; one appeared to have a bright light off one end.

Report quality: Low39/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-06
Where
Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20-25 mn
Geo
—
Slug
cigar-over-boundary-waters-canoe-area-mn-2005-41b251
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 75 sightings in 2005.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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