CaseCigar2015

Shoreview, MN, USA

Bright white light with blue tail shot past incredibly fast and then disappeared; about 300-500 feet in the air.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-14
Where
Shoreview, MN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 second
Geo
45.079, -93.147 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-shoreview-mn-2015-bc269a
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…

In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Shoreview, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 152 sightings in 2015.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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