UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

Cohasset, MN, USA

Stationary, very bright light during clear, dark evening sky, northern Minnesota. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 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
2017-01-29
Where
Cohasset, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
47.264, -93.620 · exact
Slug
oval-over-cohasset-mn-2017-cf7f5c
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Cohasset, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 83 sightings in 2017.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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