Newbrighton, MN, USA
The disk was flying west, above county road d at about 1000 feet high, at a very high rate of speed. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-27
- Where
- Newbrighton, MN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 45.066, -93.202 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-newbrighton-mn-2016-e12d82
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 2 reports logged in Newbrighton, MN.
- This case is one of 85 Minnesota reports filed in 2016.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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