CaseFormation1959
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Flying while in the Marine Corps in a AD Skuraider & with a wing man, at apprx 6,000 ft observed Four Red cly objects estimating at 20,
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-23
- Where
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 hrs
- Geo
- 44.980, -93.264 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-minneapolis-mn-1959-1a157f
In context
- This is one of 143 reports logged in Minneapolis, MN.
- This case is one of 2 Minnesota reports filed in 1959.
- Formation craft made up 1.5% of 1950s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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