UFOMYST
CaseFlash2006

Excelsior, MN, USA

Saw a bright flash, and a low level airplane. Saw a green flare come down from sky, but not from airplane.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-03-18
Where
Excelsior, MN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
44.903, -93.566 · exact
Slug
flash-over-excelsior-mn-2006-954590
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

  • Excelsior, MN shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 59 reports came from Minnesota in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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