UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Ely, MN, USA

Bright lights over 40,000 feet high stationary/hovering with occassional erratic movement, not star, plane, or satelite.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-13
Where
Ely, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
current
Geo
47.903, -91.867 · exact
Slug
light-over-ely-mn-2012-ffd2d4
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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Ely, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 145 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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