CaseCircle2020

Duluth, MN, USA

3 separate, consecutive sightings heading NE, N of yellow circular lights gliding at continuous speed across the night sky

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-16
Where
Duluth, MN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
46.783, -92.107 · exact
Slug
circle-over-duluth-mn-2020-ab4f50
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

  • One of 60 documented reports from Duluth, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 119 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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