UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

St. Paul (southern part), MN, USA

three craft travel in formation above Minnesota. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrail, we believe. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-15
Where
St. Paul (southern part), MN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
7minutes
Geo
44.944, -93.093 · exact
Slug
formation-over-st-paul-southern-part-mn-2004-cc2a5a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • St. Paul (southern part), MN has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 75 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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