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Minnesota UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,090 UFO sighting reports in Minnesota to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (439 reports, 21.00% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (281 reports, 13.44% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (408 reports, 19.52% of total).
- 08/09/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (18 reports, 0.86% of total).
- 2015 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (152 reports, 7.27% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,055 reports, 50.48% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Minnesota
These Minnesota UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I witnessed a ufo go above my head glowing bright green with a yellow center! I got in an argument with my girlfriend, so I went outside for a walk up the hill and I sat up there on the cement wall on the sidewalk until I was ready to go back into the apartment and I’m walking down the hill slowly, and it’s very cold outside. I’m only wearing a thin sweater. As I’m walking back down the hill, I’m staring towards downtown Minneapolis at a red light coming from downtown.
next thing you know out of thin air up in the sky appears a bright green ball moving fast overhead heading in direction of downtown where I was looking. It went straight cut left cut back to the right at an angle, went straight for a second, and disappeared back into thin air. then I stood there in shock for at least 30 seconds to a minute.
Immediately after I processed what happened I went to call my brother, and when I got back inside, I instantly told everyone what just happened before going back to the earlier argument, which caused me to leave the apartment in the first place.
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Metallic silver object that was highly reflective Seen a large metallic silver object that was rectangular in shape. It was highly reflective and was reflecting light from the sun. Object was moving relatively fast and was high up where a plane would fly.
Object was moving southward for about .45 seconds to a minute and then just disappeared completely.
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Looked east clear sky noticed an orb Saw an unidentified object looking east it was so weird I did a double take then got my kids and wife up out of bed to see. It was beautiful. I don't have words for what I saw but I've never seen it again.
I have to add there was no noise.
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Outgassing from recently lanched rocket.
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North east sky, looked like sun shining off aircraft, i checked my radar app no aircraft in area, i look back up and its gone I was driving east when I looked up in the north east sky and saw what i thought at first was the sun shining off an airplane, it didn’t seem to be moving so I checked My Radar app and there was no aircraft in the area. Once i saw nothing on radar I looked back up to the sky and it was gone.
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White light in the sky, no sound, and no wingtip/tail lights. On the evening of 2/1/24 my young son and I went on a neighborhood walk after supper. I glanced up at the sky and noticed a light that looked like a slowly moving star.
I then realized it was too close to be a star and thought it could be a small airplane. However, it had no wing tip or tail lights that flashed. It was a solid white light.
Planes have headlights, but typically only use them for take offs and landings. The object was heading from the NW to SE. There was no deviation of flight pattern.
It was moving too slowly to be a small or commercial airplane and the altitude seemed to be higher than a small plane and too low to be a commercial flight. See videos.
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Three large orange lights . When I caught them on video they were already 10 times smaller then they were when I first saw them. There were 3 fairly large orange orbs floating/flying together, but with some space between them.
They caught my eye because the color looked like a fireball, they didn't blink or flash, they didn't have a crisp light like a helicopter or plane would have. I watched for a couple minutes before they slowly disappeared .
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Witnessed moving orange ball/orb moving and then disappeared I was stargazing when I noticed a Orange colored orb moving past a star I was looking at and it kept moving until it disappeared going east.
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While in my backyard, I noticed moving white light in sky, which was clear with no clouds, and very dark out. This light was very bright and shiny, and moved overhead from a W/SW direction. I used my binoculars to see any details, but it just looked like a bright white light, somewhat spherical.
As it tracked above my location toward the E/NE, it seemed to move in a slightly wiggling or erratic path. As I watched, it also seemed to slow down in its path. After about 2 minutes of viewing, I went inside the house to get a coat, and watch it from the front of our house.
About 30 secs later as I went to front yard (thinking it would still be in sight), it had disappeared. I didn't behave or look like a high altitude satellite, which I've seen many times before. What was noticeable was its brightness and how close it seemed to the Earth (relatively speaking).
I checked the location of the International Space Station, and the ISS was not above North America, so I don't think it was that.
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This has been present outside and emits a high pitched frequency. It seems to be able to evesdrop. Round shaped bright light emitting a very high pitched frequency.
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Long group of objects that looked like stars but in our atmosphere. Disappeared quickly and seen black object shooting up. There was like 11 individual stars from when i noticed it.
Looked like a bunch of stars but they were in a straight line in groups of 3s. It was a long line spaced apart, i would imagine several miles in distance from the first to the last one. They were bright like stars but appeared low as if they were floating in the sky.
It was much higher then a tall voltage line but lower then an airplane. An aircraft flew in between 2 of the points and you could tell the airplane was higher in elevation. After the plane went by then the objects started disappearing 1 by 1.
Then I saw a black image shoot straight up between where the lights were, like a shooting star with no lights but going up. Then when they all disappeared, a moment later there was a white flash in the spot where the line was.
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They were in a circular formation. There might’ve been two clusters, but that’s because I was at two different places for it. I was walking my dog with my father on the loop around my neighborhood, hidden oaks and basswood streets, when we saw a ring of 11 white orbs.
We live in Eden Prairie, MN. I was watching from in front of the entrance of my neighborhood and the sidewalk/path near it.
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My daughter and I were walking our dog down our block around 10:20 p.m. I glanced to the the sky and witnessed a white glowing orb with a soft blue hue.
There was a black line dividing the orb, making it look like a hamburger. I looked away. But then, my daughter asked me "do you see that?" So, I glanced up to the sky again and watched an object pulsate in a wave like pattern down towards Earth.
It had beautiful white lights that would appear and then disappear as it was moving along it's path. It was absolutely beautiful. My attention suddenly shifted as I (we) watched a dark black triangle move across the sky.
It had a few of the beautiful sparkling white lights, but they disappeared as it turned into a deep and dark black color. It got very close to us as we stood there watching it fly by. My daughter said it was the size of a commercial air plane, but what I saw was much smaller.
The only reason I could see it at all was because of it's deep, rich black color. It was absolutely silent as it passed us by, us, which was odd and absolutely amazing! In total, my experience lasted approximately 5-10 seconds. But, it felt much longer, like slow motion took over from start to finish.
I told my daughter that I felt like I was hypnotized as we were walking back to the house. Overall, I'm happy I got to experience this life changing event, I will never forget it! Ever.
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We saw an oval shaped object in the sky, no lights, more like a faint glow of light around it, then it became a triangle At the end of our street I noticed an oval shape surrounded by a faint wavering light. It was directly above us, moving like a floating feather, or like a snake. We watched it come down and circle around, becoming a very large black V with no lights.
I honestly don’t know how I was able to see it with no lights on or around it, I can’t explain anything about it.
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Three series of 3 slightly yellow/ white,lights spaced wide apart that then became one bright light, then went back to three. I saw a series of three sets of individual lights close together that were white yellow in color but widely spaced apart. The first two lights in the series of three were small and one larger.
This was true of all three widely spaced sets of lights. The two smaller lights moved forward and became one light and they did this in unison constantly. Hovering of the lights lasted about a minute and a half at about 11 o’clock in the sky.
Then the lights went slightly to the northeast and then straight up and disappeared. There was no sound anywhere. I had pulled over my truck and turned off the lights, and got out, so I could see them better.
There were no lights on in my vehicle to reflect on the windshield and almost no lights to reflect in the surrounding area except way behind me. There was no moon only stars and I could not see the outline of any trees. I was talking to my friend on the phone hands-free when I saw them appear, and was completely amazed.
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3 of these were hovering and moving by my house. I recorded the object and it got extremely large in a split second and small again. I could see this object clearly in the sunrise- it seemed extremely close with an orb possibly around the light that seems to be circular in shape but not fixed.
As I watched it in the sky- clouds would pass by and the object would almost disappear into a poof of smoke as it passed the cloud. Once the cloud would pass- it would go back to being the bright object in the sky! You could still see the floating mass when it seemed to camouflage itself as a cloud. Finally- right before the sun was going to come up- I went outside to see if the objects were still there.
They seems to be even brighter! I began to film the brightest of the 3. As I was filming- the object got extremely large - probably 5 times the size with more detail on how the Object looked. A second later- the object went back to its original size.
The shape shifting of the object took 2 seconds total to do this! I have been filming this object consistently for a month or so and it stays visible like an orb floating in the sky. It starts to rise at this point and fades out into the distance as it gets further away. I have lived in Saint Cloud all my life and recently started to see objects moving in the sky that didn’t seem like planes or any of our technology.
I am usually pretty skeptical of “ufos or aliens” and I tend to go with the simplest most logical explanation. I’ve never reported alien sighting and I never really believed in aliens until these objects started appearing in the sky.
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It was a gray disk with a blue sideways glow in the middle in the shape of a ufo and it was blinking while flying forward disappearing The object was suspicious it was a gray disk with a blue oval on top kind of in the gray oval looking like a ufo, I wasn’t sure to be exact what it was till we researched it and found this page, it was moving very slow then sped up and started blinking before disappearing I think it flew back into the sky leaving super faint blue shadows, It happened very quickly and are phones weren’t allowing us to record. We were all very anxious so that being might be why our dog was acting weird but she stood there whining and staring at the object, she wouldn’t listen to her name being called or even look at us for a good 5 minutes after whatever this object deems to be.
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Pulsating object changing colors red green white moving left right up and down saw object with naked eye got binoculars woke up wife than got 800 mm tele photo lens and viewed object.
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Hovering orbs over 694 and Lexington ave There were faded orange orbs 7 to 10, above the 694 highway 10 feet above the street lights. Hovering. They did not move and did not have a blinker or a true formation.
Some were evenly spaced and other random. Thought they may be drones but 7 to 10 and no blinking. I turned on police scanner and no reports.
I tried calling Shoreview dispatch and was disconnected. I was driving 65 mph and I didn't appear the other drivers were interested as when I looked up I was all over the road.
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Slow moving single star that left a stationary visibly connected string of bright objects. Not starlink. A solo, slow moving, star like object starts moving across the sky.
It leaves a faint bluish trail behind it, also stationary star like objects spaced closer together at the start of trail and spaced farther apart towards the end. The only thing that moved was whatever the bright object was that created the trail. Its length was about 3 moons wide.
It looked like a straight line of a finished connect the dots picture, due to the faint bluish light that connected each stationary object. I’m not sure if each 8 to 10 objects were a single object or separate because all objects disappeared at the same exact time. Completely different from how they had initially appeared.
Minnesota UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 439 reported sightings | 21.00% of all reports |
Circle | 247 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Triangle | 212 reported sightings | 10.14% of all reports |
Sphere | 141 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
Unknown | 134 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Other | 127 reported sightings | 6.08% of all reports |
Fireball | 114 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Disk | 114 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Formation | 85 reported sightings | 4.07% of all reports |
Oval | 83 reported sightings | 3.97% of all reports |
Cigar | 54 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
Rectangle | 49 reported sightings | 2.34% of all reports |
Changing | 46 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Flash | 39 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Chevron | 32 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Diamond | 23 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Cylinder | 21 reported sightings | 1.00% of all reports |
Teardrop | 18 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
Egg | 14 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Orb | 12 reported sightings | 0.57% of all reports |
Cross | 6 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
Star | 4 reported sightings | 0.19% of all reports |
Cone | 4 reported sightings | 0.19% of all reports |
Cube | 3 reported sightings | 0.14% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 281 reported sightings | 13.44% of all reports |
July | 279 reported sightings | 13.35% of all reports |
May | 196 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
September | 193 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
June | 184 reported sightings | 8.80% of all reports |
April | 174 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
October | 167 reported sightings | 7.99% of all reports |
November | 146 reported sightings | 6.99% of all reports |
March | 122 reported sightings | 5.84% of all reports |
December | 121 reported sightings | 5.79% of all reports |
January | 100 reported sightings | 4.78% of all reports |
February | 91 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 408 reported sightings | 19.52% of all reports |
Friday | 317 reported sightings | 15.17% of all reports |
Sunday | 312 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
Monday | 265 reported sightings | 12.68% of all reports |
Thursday | 262 reported sightings | 12.54% of all reports |
Wednesday | 247 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Tuesday | 243 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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08/09/15 | 18 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
08/19/04 | 18 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
04/18/20 | 12 reported sightings | 0.57% of all reports |
05/25/19 | 10 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 8 reported sightings | 0.38% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1,055 reported sightings | 50.48% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 354 reported sightings | 16.94% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 310 reported sightings | 14.83% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 124 reported sightings | 5.93% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 120 reported sightings | 5.74% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 91 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Minnesota
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Minnesota
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Minnesota