Preston, MN, USA
My mom, two brothers, and myself were driving down the road from Fountain to Preston and as we were driving we saw a floating craft wit
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-22
- Where
- Preston, MN, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.670, -92.083 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-preston-mn-2016-6961b4
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
- Preston, MN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 85 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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