CaseCircle2014

Minot, UT, USA

Right at midnight, my younger sister and one of our neighbors came and got me and my brother out of bed to check out this interesting

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-09-03
Where
Minot, UT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10:00
Geo
48.233, -101.296 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-minot-ut-2014-99e440
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 1 documented reports from Minot, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 79 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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