CaseOval2019

Montrose, MN, USA

((HOAX)) My friend and I were driving home and all the sudden out of the clouds a huge large silver sphere was falling from E to W.

Report quality: Low19/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2019-04-15
Where
Montrose, MN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
Huge sphere
Geo
45.065, -93.911 · exact
Slug
oval-over-montrose-mn-2019-186c92
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…

In context

  • Montrose, MN shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 127 reports came from Minnesota in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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