Backus, MN, USA
Reddish orb floating across the sky about basketball size right above the cabins about 100 150 feet above land. Saw it from land and my
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- Backus, MN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3
- Geo
- 46.820, -94.516 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-backus-mn-2015-18317f
Part of a wave
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Backus, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Minnesota logged 152 sightings in 2015.
Report
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