CaseCigar2016

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Red/Fiery object (or plane) in sky; Loud humming noise.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-23
Where
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
44.980, -93.264 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-minneapolis-mn-2016-cc36b0
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

  • Minneapolis, MN has 143 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 85 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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