UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Cottage Grove, MN, USA

Driving North on Chemolite Rd. In front and to the left of me I see a shooting star-like object nosediving towards the ground.

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-07
Where
Cottage Grove, MN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
44.828, -92.944 · exact
Slug
circle-over-cottage-grove-mn-2020-c146a9
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…

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In context

  • Cottage Grove, MN has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 119 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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