UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2022

Ely, MN, USA

Bright green object moving upward. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a lens flare, caused by a bright light in field of view of camera?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (34 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
2022-02-23
Where
Ely, MN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes maybe?
Geo
47.903, -91.867 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-ely-mn-2022-1792c7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Ely, MN.
  • This case is one of 20 Minnesota reports filed in 2022.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.8% of 2020s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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