St. Paul, MN, USA
Three bright lights in a perfect triangle position. Above Dayton Bluff area & east side of the St paul,MN
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-06
- Where
- St. Paul, MN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- currently still in the sk
- Geo
- 44.944, -93.093 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-st-paul-mn-2016-5e16e7
Part of a wave
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
- One of 69 documented reports from St. Paul, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 85 sightings in 2016.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.