UFOMYST
CaseCigar2019

Downer, MN, USA

A seemingly low hovering cigar shaped light appeared in the sky, moved south for 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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-03
Where
Downer, MN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
46.754, -96.487 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-downer-mn-2019-f50383
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Downer, MN.
  • This case is one of 127 Minnesota reports filed in 2019.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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