CaseFormation2017

Shokapee, MN, USA

We noticed a really big circle made up of 12 smaller perfectly spaced circle. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights at casino? Anon. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-09-30
Where
Shokapee, MN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
Slug
formation-over-shokapee-mn-2017-0e1d4a
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Shokapee, MN.
  • This case is one of 83 Minnesota reports filed in 2017.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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