Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Report quality: High74/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-19
- Where
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 44.980, -93.264 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-minneapolis-mn-2004-abb797
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…
Local cluster
August 2004 was a busy month for Minneapolis, MN: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 143 reports logged in Minneapolis, MN.
- This case is one of 75 Minnesota reports filed in 2004.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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