CaseUnknown2011

Buffalo, MN, USA

Hovering silent craft, size of small plane, maybe spherical

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-17
Where
Buffalo, MN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
45.172, -93.875 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-buffalo-mn-2011-804f64
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

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Buffalo, MN.
  • This case is one of 82 Minnesota reports filed in 2011.

Report

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