UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Lakeville, MN, USA

10/3/2012 Lakeville, MN; Formation sighting identified

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-03
Where
Lakeville, MN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
44.650, -93.243 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lakeville-mn-2012-6f6a76
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

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In context

  • One of 36 documented reports from Lakeville, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 145 sightings in 2012.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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