Mankato, MN, USA
my girfriend and i saw an opaque outline of an oval elongated object with lights foreward, midship and aft dissappear within an instant
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1990-07-01
- Where
- Mankato, MN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.159, -94.009 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mankato-mn-1990-946c23
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Mankato, MN has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1990 brought 5 reports from Minnesota.
- The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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