CaseOval2011

Buffalo, MN, USA

Large Oval object hovering with bright, "blinking" rotating colors of Red/blue/green/yellow/white. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-10-21
Where
Buffalo, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 Hours
Geo
45.172, -93.875 · exact
Slug
oval-over-buffalo-mn-2011-71da46
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

  • One of 9 documented reports from Buffalo, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 82 sightings in 2011.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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