UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Orange/blue light-ball cluster over downtown Minneapolis 1/17/13.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-17
Where
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.980, -93.264 · exact
Slug
formation-over-minneapolis-mn-2013-d256e3
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Minneapolis, MN shows up 143 times across the archive.
  • 126 reports came from Minnesota in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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