Minnesota UFO Sightings in 2006

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First of all, I reported this to two local police departments within 15 minutes of witnessing this 'object' in the sky. Police department A told me to contact police department B beacuse, and I quote, "There is a report of a missing person in that county". It was located, from my best estimate, between 500 feet and 5000 feet in the air Southwest of Raymond, Minnesota between the hours of 0300 and 0345.

The police departments (A & B) had no knowledge of any airborne object in the sky in the location that I had mentioned. The object looked like it could have been a rectangular object or a spherical shape. It hovered in one spot for the entire time I was looking at it.

It had a blue, red, and white light. The blue and the red lights were twice as prominent as the white light. The white light seemed as it was the light of a white house.

My vantage point did not give me adequate means to give me solid knowledge that it emanated a beam of some sort. I was not able to find out any additional information from the local police departments and was not contacted by the police departments after I filed the report. This is not a joke and why I have been led to even write you is because of the idea of a missing person and a UFO does not sit well with me.

I prefer to keep this discreet but welcome a phone call.

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UFO in Minnesota, witnessed by three people. I was at my moms apartment and my brother went outside to smoke, 30 seconds later he came bursting throught the door and said go outside you gotta se this. So me my mother and my brother went outside on the porch to see whats going on and my brother said LOOK.

There was a search light in the sky but it wasn't straight up in the sky, it was at a low angle and in the light i saw an image floating through it. There was no sound, no cars, no nothing all was quiet. Then the search light moved off the object and i saw a huge UFO.

it was flying as low as a plane would fly (1000 ft. not sure). The ship was humungus.

It floated aroung the house and i bent over the porch rail to see it and then i looked at my mom then i looked back and it was gone.

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Large rectangular shape- gray in color. Traveling Northwest very fast. In and out of horizion within 3 min.

There were military craft chasing and vastly outran.

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Green lights from georgia to Minnesota? May be related to the Georgia Green Light Case. We left the BP Gas station near the intersection of US HWY 10 and Jamaica Ave S in Cottage Grove, MN At approx 1830 hrs. We were headed NW direction on US HWY 10 from Cottage Grove, MN towards St.

Paul, MN. As we were driving past the exit for 80th St and US Hwy 10 the sky above the refinery became visible. The sky was overcast, dark and a fine mist was in the air, the temperature was above freezing, perhaps in the low 40s.

My daughter Kourtney (14) and I (34-M) were in the front seat while my son Chris (12) was in the back of our Durango SUV. My daughter and I could see a distinct Green Light that appeared to be sourced within the clouds or a bit below, shining down, and flashing as if taking pictures. The light was a dull Green color that repeatedly flashed sometimes from slightly different positions over the Marathon refinery.

This green beam was a dull color that did not reveal its source. We could see only the hint of a shadow with no definete outline. The mist helped to show the definete beam shape ( like a spotlight) as it aimed for the ground.

As each flash of the light occured, the vapor that was in the "beam" during the flash became charged and glowed like an Ionized gas. These towers or columns of light (possibly ionized gas or mist)remained much brighter than the source that appeared to be creating them. In the three to four minutes that it takes to drive towards the refinery we saw perhaps ten to fifteen formed.

As we got closer to the refinery the columns of light/ gas floated away from the refinery in an eastern direction at the wind speed. I would estimate this to be about fifteen to twenty miles an hour with a lower elevation of approximately 1500 feet and a terminal elevation of 2000 feet. they were that tall.

Also the lights seemed to be overpowered by the refineries bright tower lights. as our eyes adjusted to the brightness, it became harder to see. I doubt anyone at the refinery would have noticed these at all.

There were no spotlights at the refinery either, which I looked for as some kind of explanation. As we passed the refinery, they seemed to disappear. I continued to my destination (near downtown St.

Paul) and spotted the lights forming again on my return. This time the green light seemed to be a pale white or yellow light (like a sodium lamp color) but still the columns of gas/mist would form and glow and float away from the refinery, for miles! This second sighting was approximately 1900-1910 hours. I was alone so I returned home and picked up my wife (36) my step daughter (16) and my friend Mike (38) and we returned to as parking lot in Newport, MN (across the highway from the refinery) and watched these lights form repeatedly.

At one point the lights were so numerous they looked like a photo of a "galactic center" with neboulous clouds and colors. This peak of activity occured around 2010-2030 hours with all of us witnessing these columnsof light. A few columns appeared over the inver grove heights river valley, and some of these "stragglers" flew directly over our head at this time.

They looked like florescent lightbulbs- sort of. We listened with the windows open and did not hear a sound coming from the sky. by 2040 hours, the lights were gone and most of the columns had blown away with the wind.

The approximate lattitude/ Longitude location of the refinery is: 44.51.08 N 93.

00.10 W our observation point where the columns flew over us: 44.52.

28 n 93.00.02 w The columns that flew above us originated approx: 44.

52.23 n 93.01.

17 w I did see a dark streak shoot across the lower cloud elevation suddenly at the termination of the event which was not observed by the others. No electrical effects were observed.

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I was out side at about 7:30 at night with my telescope, when I happened to look up at the sky and saw what I at first thought was a shooting star until I noticed a single red light on it's side.I took a guess that there must have been a light on the other side to.It was flying at an incredible speed,somewhere around the speed of light.

I wasn't able to see any thing else because before I knew it,it was gone.

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I was out side at about 7:30 at night with my telescope, when I happened to look up at the sky and saw what I at first thought was a shooting star until I noticed a single red light on it's side.I took a guess that there must have been a light on the other side to.It was flying at an incredible speed,somewhere around the speed of light.

I wasn't able to see any thing else because before I knew it,it was gone.

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Streaking orange light made no sound at all. My family was on its way home from Lake City when we decided to stop at my wife’s brother’s house in Bellchester to say "hi," since he didn’t show for the family Thanksgiving. His house was dark and my wife decided to go herself to see if he was home while I waited in our minivan with our two young kids who are still in car seats.

My oldest was sleeping and we didn’t want to wake her up. I had shut off the headlights and was trying to figure out how to dim the radio lights when out of my peripheral vision, I saw what I thought was an airplane streak from my front left to front right, almost above my vehicle. This craft was flying very quickly at cloud level and could be seen in between two puffs of clouds on a partly cloudy night.

I had only briefly locked into the object when it entered into another big cloud and that was all I saw. This happened very quickly, a second or two. At first it didn’t register as anything unusual since my immediate focus was elsewhere.

Since my wife was talking with her brother, I was able to think about what I had seen. I’d spent my first three years in the Army at Fort Bragg, next to Pope AFB, where a lot of F-16s, A-10s, and cargo planes such as the C-5 and then the new C-17 flew. I had spent some time at Seymour Johnson AFB guarding cargo next to its runway and had intimate understanding how loud F-15s were.

When I was a kid growing up in Southern Wisconsin, C-130s flew over our house nap of the earth and so I knew how loud they were, what sound they made, and how much slower they were than fighter jets. I spent a lot of time in C-130s and C-141s at Bragg as well. What I realized was that at that low of an altitude and at that speed, the only thing it could have been was a fighter jet hauling butt.

However, I know that fighter jets are not allowed to fly so low at those speeds over populated areas. It was much too fast to be a C-130 or similar type of aircraft. But the most distinctive fact that struck me, was that when this object flew over, it made no sound.

Even in a minivan with engine running, the sound of a fighter jet going that fast that low would have been deafening. I would have just heard it approach before seeing it, and heard it even longer after it passed over. Instead, nothing at all.

No sound. I then realized that I might have seen a UFO. I couldn’t have been sure in the moment, but after analyzing all the facts, it couldn’t have been any known aircraft.

It wasn’t a satellite because they don’t fly under the clouds. I thought it might have been a meteor, but this flew at a straight horizontal path. I’m no meteor expert, but the ones I’d seen always came at some angle to the horizon, are usually higher up in the sky, and appear whitish, not the orange light I’d seen.

If it were that close, wouldn’t I have heard something? FYI, I spent 13 total years in the Army, about half on active and half in the Guard. I started as ranger qualified paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne (11B) and finished as a Signal Corps officer within V Corps with one tour in Iraq. I was with the 32nd Infantry BDE WIARNG between those two Active Duty stints.

I am currently a small business owner in a small MN town and only talk about my UFO sightings with people I trust or if someone else admits they saw one, too. I saw my first UFO sighting as a young teen and posted that experience in the WI area. I grew up in a fundamental Christian home, so this is not something I'm suppose to believe in.

However, I can't deny and can't explain what I've seen.

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This really happened and I would like an explanation! Read it and believe it. I was getting into our hot tub out off of our deck. As always I look up and enjoy the stars.

I've been a star gazer my whole life. I have NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE! The thing was flying across the sky heading due south and off to the east a bit, not directly overhead. One red light very dim with two sets of two directly behind.

the whole thing was very small which I believe to be actually very high in the sky. -Unbelievably- fast and the real thriller is the ((deleted)) thing slowed to almost a stop and took off in another direction. I couldn't believe my eyes.

I tried to write it off as a helicopter but I heard NO SOUND. My wife and friend came out shortly after and we hung out for a while. I told them what I saw and I don't think they believe me.

Anyway we soaked in the tub for a while and my wife went in the house. Our friend and I sat for a bit longer and intrigued I kept watching the sky. A few meteors throughout about an hour and one thing blew my mind.

It started out like a meteor but in the direct opposite path of the first unexplainable object. It was a light that appeared and faded out like a meteor but it reappeared and faded and appeared again across the entire sky due north. I of course yelled for our friend to look but she didn't see it.

This too was going incredibly fast. O.k.

Now I'm starting to freak out a bit. I've always believed in Carl Sagan about being alone. The real clincher is and this just happened one hour ago is that goddamn red thing went back south again in the exact same path.

one red light very dim with two sets of two. if you weren't looking you wouldn't see it at the same speed and damn near the same path. It wasn't an aircraft of anything conventional.

No disc shapes either. it was too high and way too fast for anything I have ever seen. I have always thought there has to be life out there but now i have NO DOUBT.

I would appreciate and explanation of what it was I saw tonight. Duluth has a state of the art airguard base and I bet they know what ! it was or if they don't they BETTER because if what I saw is hostile we are doomed. ((NUFORC Note: We do not know what the first object was, the the intermittent light, which moved from north to south, may have been a tumbling rocket booster in orbit.

PD)).

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Glowing green object crosses Twin Cities at low altitude I was driving home alone on westbound highway 36 in Roseville MN. It was about 10:45 pm and I had just passed the Rosedale shopping mall when I glanced out the side window of my car. I saw a craft emitting pale green light moving very quickly through the low clouds.

It was flying from east to west, toward downtown Minneapolis. I watched it glide through the sky for a moment, but then I had to look back at the road to make a curve. When I tried again to look for the light, it was gone.

Because of the low clouds, I could not fully make out what the object was. At first I thought it was a small plane, but it instantly struck me as different because it did not behave like a plane. Its pale green light was steady, not blinking.

And it was moving at a low altitude so quickly and steadily, in an impossibly-perfect straight line. I have never seen any plane do like this. And about 30 seconds after I saw this, my 17 year old nephew called me from St Paul MN on my cellular phone to tell me that he had just seen a UFO.

He described exactly what I had just seen--only he had gotten a better look at it. He was sitting outside on his front step in St Paul, and the craft crossed the sky at low altitude, from east to west. He saw the same pale green light passing in and out of the low clouds.

But he got a good look at the craft -- it was triangular shaped, like an arrowhead. And the pale green light was coming from lights along the edges that were long, more like fluorescent light tubes than like bulbs that you would see on a plane. And the craft was perfectly silent.

I believe my nephew and I saw the same craft, from vantage points about 10 miles apart, as it crossed the Twin Cities from St Paul to Minneapolis at low altitude. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Very bright, streaking object blueish green in color traveling west over the western suburbs of Minneapolis. At approximately 10:40pm CDT, I observed a blueish/green meteor like flash cross the sky, but very close to the earth's surface, maybe 2,000 to 5,000 feet off the ground. It was traveling west.

It moved out past some homes close to my house and I lost sight of it. There was no noise at all, just a very brilliant blueish/green streak going across the sky. My first thought was a plane on fire, but there was no engine noise.

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"Star" observed moving erratically through the evening sky Last night, at approximately 8:35 PM, I went outside to have a cigarette, and I love the night sky, so I was looking up at the stars, and I noticed one "star" in particular that appeared to be moving rapidly across the sky. I kept my eye on it as I tried to come up with a rational explanation for what it could be, but the longer I watched it, the more erratic it's movements became. It would stop, change directions, hover, and it did appear to move at different speeds.

At one point, it disappeared behind a cloud, but it reappeared momentarily. It was either too small or too far away for me to actually be able to tell what it was, like I said, I thought it was just a star until it started moving. I did notice what appeared to be an airplane about 3 minutes into the sighting, although it seemed to be traveling in the opposite direction (NNW) and at a lower altitude.

The "star" was last seen traveling ESE.

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It flew almost all the way across the clear night horizon far too fast to be an aircraft or a satelitte, zig-zagged, then darted upward Me, my brother and sister-in law were enjoying the clear night sky around a bon-fire at our hunting schack in central Minnesota, when we noticed a brighter star-like object very fast light moving across the sky from the west. When we noticed it, we knew it could not be an aircraft, as the speed it moved across the sky was just plain way too fast!! We weren't sure, and looked in the sky for another aircraft as a reference speed and found one. When we looked back, we noticed it had started to go from left to right in an upwards direction.

It continued it's course eastward, then suddenly went upwards moving slightly towards the east much much faster than it moved across the sky, in a matter of seconds it was out of our eyesight. At that point, we realized it could not have been an aircraft, nor a satellite! My brother saw it again the next night, travel the same sort of path, at appoximately the same time. But we have never seen it again.

We tried to rule out the possiblity of it being a non earth-like flying phenonmenon, but due to it's speed it moved across the sky and the fast back and forth manuevers it made, it was just not at all possible to determine it was of this earth. We realized there was no other alternative explaination. We still look for it whenever we are there.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We will check to see whether the ISS might have been visible from Minnesota at the time the sighting took place. PD)).

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Blue and Purple Fireball with noise sighted On a clear, Saturday night, me and my sister witnessed 2 different colored fireballs that had a "light hissing sound". At around 10:00 PM on that Saturday night, I was looking out my window in the night sky searching for the space shuttle "Atlantis", when I noticed right where I was staring a bright blue fireball emmiting "sparks" and a light hissing sound. Astonished by what I had just witnessed, I jetted downstairs into my living room to explain to my sister what I had seen in full detail.

I excited my sister greatly, so much, that she decided to search for what she thought, were 'shooting stars'. Now, I personally didn't think that it was a shooting star, and if it was, it must have been a heck of a bolide. So I took a shower after that, and when I finished, my sister told me that she saw a purple one.

I am not sure if this is true, since she is young, and has an imagination, but she does not often lie. This spectacle amazed me to the point in which I'll never forget. ((NUFORC Note: Probable hoax from student, we believe.

PD)).

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Definetly not a typical aircraft, military or commercial jet of any kind One craft falling at a slow rate of descent, approx 20 Miles north of saint cloud, MN. teardrop shaped at first as of a missile, slowly turning to a bright spherical shape. Another craft moving slowly towards the northeast leaving what appeared to be a vapor trail.

I went to a tenth story window in my building with my camera. At 20:05 both craft had vanished. Both were very bright and moving at a very slow rate of descent and ascent.

One on left going down, one on right going up.

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High in the western sky on August 31st at 7:55 p.m. in Edina M.

N. USA, a star like object that was fixed in the sky dimmed , split up, What appeared to be a star was sighted almost directly overhead, but leaning to the west. It seemed to bright to be a star and did not move.

The view through 4x30 bioculars did not change the objects appearance much. Soon however, it dimmed to about half it's original brightness and eventually split in two. The two hazy blobs soon dissapeared.

It was the color of a star.

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Explanation for 8/24/06 Flash (*please do not post, this is not a report*) Dear NUFORC, As I looked into the bright green flash event that illuminated the sky on August 24, 2006, I discovered one possible explanation for the event others that live near me wittnessed as well. One day, while speaking with my father about the event, he had said he saw the same phenomena. We talked about it, and past "green flash" events, and traced it back to an air-fuel making plant located in Rosemount, MN, which emits such flashes at times.

Rosemount is about 5 miles North East of my location, and where me and a friend witnessed the same event as well. Once also, there was a powerfull explosion that came from the plant around five years ago, which illuminated the entire night sky to the point that it was seen from Eagan, MN, which is an estimated seven miles from the plant. Now I cannot fully include that this is the cause of the flash, but that is what I am now assuming the cause is.

Thank you (COURTESY OF MILE DETERMINATION: GOOGLE MAPS).

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TRIANGULAR CRAFT HOVERING AT HAMPTON, MINNESOTA - 04:00 AUGUST 2006 I was driving on highway 52 south from Minneapolis to my home in Rochester. I am a 53 year-old male RN and had just finished working. I saw a bright light on over the highway in the distance and thought that an airliner was approaching the Minneapolis airport prematurely.

As I drove closer, I then thought that the light was a medical helicopter and I was about to come upon an accident. As I reached Hampton, a very small town than highway 52 passes through, I was astonished to see a triangular shaped craft hovering motionlessly a few hundred feet from the highway, only at about 500 feet of altitude. The light that I had seen was a unidirectional spotlight mounted on top of the craft, on some kind of pole or extension device.

A county sheriff's patrol car was parked with its lights off observing the craft. Although I had a camera in the car, I nearly had a panic attack from seeing something that defied my imagination. I drove slowly by the scene and the craft continued to hover as I saw it in my rear view mirror as I drove away.

I saw no visible means of propulsion on either the underside or sides of the craft. No vents, no heat plume, and absolutely no noise.

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flashing light in deserted forest a blinking light that lit up a large area of uninhabbited wood was seen. after observing for fifteen minutes the witnesses to the event left the area.

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Blue green rotating lights As we were walking our dog at 21:30, I noticed what appeared to be a star in the SW sky. What was unique about this was the color was blue green. When we got home I looked at the object thru our binoculars.

Now I could see that instead of 1 light it was composed of 4 lights that were rotating. The object remained almost stationary for the entire sighting. At 23:15 it dropped below the tree line and I couldn't see it anymore.

I have about 15 minutes of video of the object. The object seemed to be about 30 degrees up from the horizon. As I watched the object, a bright star rotated into view close to the object and then set during the hour and 45 minutes of observation.

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saucer shape rocked back and forth while moving west lights on and around bottom of craft 1 was observed couldnt see a color.too much light none of the observers believed in flying saucers until we saw it took a picture but it turned out as nothing but a dot of light also used a video device with same turn out.