UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2020

Lake Elmo, MN, USA

Hovering craft with bright light over Lake elmo

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-23
Where
Lake Elmo, MN, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 minute
Geo
44.996, -92.879 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-lake-elmo-mn-2020-35c067
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…

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In context

  • Lake Elmo, MN shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 119 reports came from Minnesota in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 0.6% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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