CaseCigar2002
Mankato, MN, USA
bright objects in the sky that two us aircraft went over to investigate
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-19
- Where
- Mankato, MN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 44.159, -94.009 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-mankato-mn-2002-edcf61
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Mankato, MN.
- This case is one of 29 Minnesota reports filed in 2002.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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