Shakopee, MN, USA
A circle UFO composed of 12 smaller lights hovering 150 feet above the ground.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-25
- Where
- Shakopee, MN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- <30
- Geo
- 44.798, -93.527 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-shakopee-mn-2017-d8bfa3
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
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Shakopee, MN.
- This case is one of 83 Minnesota reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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