CaseCircle2016

Hermantown, MN, USA

Looking up at the moon and noticed a circular object moving. The obj. appeared to be in color of blue red and green.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-04-21
Where
Hermantown, MN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
46.807, -92.238 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hermantown-mn-2016-ff91d2
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

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Hermantown, MN.
  • This case is one of 85 Minnesota reports filed in 2016.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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