CaseCircle2020

Detroit Lakes, MN, USA

When looking at sirus as it was the brightest star in the sky, I noticed one after another. ((Spacelink satellites))

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-09
Where
Detroit Lakes, MN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
46.817, -95.845 · exact
Slug
circle-over-detroit-lakes-mn-2020-da3624
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

  • Detroit Lakes, MN has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 119 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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