Elk River, MN, USA
Witnessed by my wife, myself, and neighbor - bright white light, blue, red. much larger than any stars - stationary.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-15
- Where
- Elk River, MN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- several days
- Geo
- 45.304, -93.567 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-elk-river-mn-2017-63cbe7
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
- Elk River, MN has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 83 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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