Winona (approx. 20 miles NW of), MN, USA
A witness near Winona, Minnesota reported two unmoving, round objects positioned side by side overhead, above drifting clouds, observed for about 15 seconds in June 1947.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-15
- Where
- Winona (approx. 20 miles NW of), MN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 sec
- Geo
- 44.050, -91.639 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-winona-approx-20-miles-nw-of-mn-1947-f424ef
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Winona (approx. 20 miles NW of), MN.
- This case is one of 2 Minnesota reports filed in 1947.
- Disk craft made up 27.3% of 1940s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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