West Lakeland, MN, USA
Small low flying lights moving through sky at medium speed, spaced about 500 yards apart.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (89 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-12
- Where
- West Lakeland, MN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-west-lakeland-mn-2017-18308d
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in West Lakeland, 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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