Shoreview, MN, USA
Me and my friend looked into the sky and saw a bunch of blue lights we figured it was a plane.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-15
- Where
- Shoreview, MN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.079, -93.147 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shoreview-mn-2014-e76cd2
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
- Shoreview, MN has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 104 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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