Lake Elmo-Oakdale, MN, USA
Teal colored light ring sighted on a low altitude straight flight path for 30 plus seconds east of St. Paul, MN.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-05
- Where
- Lake Elmo-Oakdale, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30-40 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-lake-elmo-oakdale-mn-2016-4a04a3
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
- Lake Elmo-Oakdale, MN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 85 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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