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Minnesota UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 47 UFO sighting reports in Minnesota from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (8 reports, 17.02% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 34.04% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 23.40% of total).
- 05/15/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 6.38% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (18 reports, 38.30% of total).
Minnesota UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Minnesota UFO reports from 2021, 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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Recorded 2 orb like craft emulating different colors of like interacting with each other with impossible flight movements I filmed 2 different colored Burning orbs of energy on two separate sides of the sky. And then proceeded to move close interacting with each other until the two orbs became one big one. All of this taking place in the country over some cornfields along some tree lines.
Bright as the moon on a regular night but appeared to be electrified. All on recording.
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basketball sized floating orb from 30 feet away hovering 3 feet off ground very bright and flickering light moving slowly I am very skeptical about things i can't explane but this was to wierd to ignore i figured if this at least gets recorded sombody else could have something to go on. I happend to be looking out my garage window and saw the wierdest light moving towards my house down the street so i just sat and watched it for 15 minutes, and i noticed when it got in front of my driveway which was 25 to 30 feet away that as bright as it was it did not reflect light off anything, hovering 3 feet above the tar, no light reflected, it then stoped at the entrance to my drive way and made a section of my nieghbors yard light up as if it were glowing from underneath the ground, it did that for about 4 minutes then kepted on slowly moving down the street. about a week later i saw it again doing the same thing but only for 3 minutes.
it made no sound at all.
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my brother and i saw lights in formation that disappeared instantly my brother and I were driving home one night and saw 4 bright orange lights hovering in the sky. 3 of them were in a triangle formation and on the right was another stray they seemed to be nonmoving they disappeared after a couple of seconds and we both described it so each other perfectly so we both saw it for sure and they were hovering roughly 500 feet from the ground at about 1/2 mile away we were both in high school and completely sober.
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Appeared around 5:15 PM central time, stationary above the moon brightest around 5:30 faded away at 5:45 https://share.icloud.com/photos/0D-oaJ7asuhjpgUW9jqsd9RHw .
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4 yellow speres flying east managed to record one of them One was recorded.
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November 19th Minnesota during the lunar eclipse at 3:15 am. I went out about 3 am and took several pictures of the moon. It was a perfect clear night and you could clearly see the red moon with the naked eye but I could not get a good picture with my iPhone.
I had gone inside and was going to head to bed but decided to try one more time to get a photo. I went out in the back deck and looked up. I was trying to make my mind understand what it was seeing.
There was a large odd shape silently moving across the sky. It looked like it was actually made up of many smaller objects that formed the overall shape. I called for my daughter who is 20 and my son who is 22 to come see.
They had been up with me to watch the eclipse. For me I thought It looked like a flock of 100 medium glowing white birds silently flying in formation across the black sky. It was dead silence out.
The whole thing lasted 20 seconds ish. I snapped a picture . But because it was pitch black out my iPhone did a extended exposure.
So instead of seeing each individual “light” it came out in lines. But the overall shape is the same as it looked. My daughter could see the individual glowing objects that formed the overall shape.
My son could not wrap his mind around what he was seeing. It went across the sky and then out of sight. Slow moving.
It was a clear cloudless night and the overall shape was very clearly defined. It was above the trees but not as high up as a plane. The light to the right is a star.
I wish I could have gotten a better picture but I’m glad a got the picture at all. Do you have a logical explanation for what we saw?.
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Round object with flashing lights. While I was waiting for my flight to Austin, Tx, I was looking outside watching the planes take off and landing and noticed a craft with many lights underneath coming through the clouds. At first I thought it was a plane but realized it was round with many strobing lights underneath.
The lights changed from light pink to yellow to light blue. It disappeared into the clouds.
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I saw 7-9 lights flying in a v-formation. I saw 7-9 lights flying in a v-formation, similar to how geese fly. I knew the lights were separate entities because the last 2 lights on the left side seemed to be scrambling to get into formation properly.
The lights were moving very fast and straight across the sky. There was no audible noise coming from the formation. The lights were white, resembling stars.
I have always been fascinated by extraterrestrials, so I often sit on my deck to watch the sky. That night I was lucky to see what I have been waiting for.
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My friend and I where in a fishing boat on Leech Lake in central Minnesota at 8:40pm. It was a clear night, and I was commenting to my friend how clear you could see the stars. I looked straight up, and noticed what I though was a satellite, and told my friend to look up.
It looked like a satellite that was traveling pretty fast to the South East. We both noticed that the object was traveling in a zip zag motion, then it stopped, and started going in the opposite direction, then switched back heading South East until it disappeared into the horizon. It moved like nothing we've ever seen before, and was way too high to be a drone.
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MADAR Node 60.
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Reddish Pink Bright Light Moving Over Downtown NE Minneapolis As I was driving northbound on 35w at 1:58am 2 miles south of downtown, a reddish pink glowing ball intensified and became very bright over the NE downtown area. It was moving horizontally, then a small red light came out from the main bright light, and went downward. The bright reddish/pink light faded out into a yellowish color as it travelled eastward horizontally.
This light appeared too bright to be some sort of drone, and it's elevation was approx 1,000 ft to 2,000 ft.
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Solid white light traveling very fast We saw a solid white light moving very fast. It looked like it was quite far up. I tried recording it (forgot to press the button) and when I zoomed in 10X on my phone cam, it looked like a spinning top (like 1 smaller round on top of a bigger round).
When zoomed in, it also looked like it is spinning around it's own axis. It also looked like the motion (spinning) is creating the light. It was traveling from west to north-east.
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We stopped at a wayside rest on the Scenic Highway heading back towards Duluth. We were sitting on top of this cliff watching the lake and the rain clouds across from us over Wisconsin. Against the dark clouds of rain we saw this white snake like formation.
We thought they were birds, but birds don't in a line and dip up and down like your moving your hand in a wavy motion. We watched it until the snake like formation disappeared.
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We stopped at a wayside rest on the Scenic Highway heading back towards Duluth. We were sitting on top of this cliff watching the lake and the rain clouds across from us over Wisconsin. Against the dark clouds of rain we saw this white snake like formation.
We thought they were birds, but birds don't in a line and dip up and down like your moving your hand in a wavy motion. We watched it until the snake like formation disappeared.
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I went to my deck looking at the sky saw to s/e a round oval shape was like a very bright yellowish then it moved fast up then as it did I had a bright light in my eye then took off fast over the house went to the n/w it sounded like a jet plane it was fast there was two of them in the first of the year an watched them an all thru the summer till that day only one there I had sent a picture to a friend he said it was strange there was a lot of electrical interference with devices in house an car an even in the house strange today only one up looks very bright almost like the others but bright I have never saw any thing like this before was shocking though.
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I woke early in the morning to go for my casual run. While stretching and looking to the sky I had noticed a bright oval shaped light sitting in the sky. At first I didn’t think anything of it until I started to notice there were no other flashing lights on the object and it did not appear to be moving.
I took my iPhone 11pro out of my pocket and began to record the object and began to zoom into it. The object had to have been at least 5-10 miles away from me. The closer my camera got I noticed that there was light moving around this object and there is a noticeable circle inside of it.
I have it all captured on film. Amongst one of the videos I was taking the object disappeared from the sky as some sort of other object shot past it leaving a trail of light of purple and blue. When the object had passed the oval shaped light had reappeared in the same spot.
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Lights hovering Checked my Ring camera & saw the hovering lights following a deer in the backyard. Trying to figure out what the lights are, never seen them before back there.
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One light, morphed into two bright balls of light. Sitting outside and across lake saw a bright light, orangish color. Thought it was plane but looked too big and too bright for how far away it was.
It appeared and then it turned into 2 lights, then the second light faded out and then the first one faded out as well. Then the light appeared again about a minute after and then faded out again. The lights stayed in one spot, disappeared and when it came back it appeared in same spot just sitting there.
My husband took out phone and recorded it but it was hard to see on video, because he couldn’t zoom in very well.
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Cylinder object with circulating white light over my home. It sped off at over light speed into a portal. Looking at stars and a meteor type of object travelled extremely quickly across sky travelling directly North and stopped for a second or so over my house at approximately 40-80k feet.
After the object stopped, it drifted and appeared as a satellite, a second later the object quickly changed direction and moved at a 45 degree angle. As it moved, a bright white light like a old flash camera hit me directly in that the light did not illuminate my surroundings. The craft then stopped and the white light flash happened again.
The craft was motionless for a few seconds just before speeding off into a white particle tunnel like plume.As it sped off into the portal, the craft travelled at faster than light as the craft was several inches ahead of the light trail emitted when it hit its warp drive. Also was dramatic take off from the stopped craft position in that it travelled straight up, stopped moved directly sideways, the straight into the portal.
The whole sighting took only 10 seconds, however I checked my watch immediately before the encounter and it said 11:45pm. When I looked at my watch immediately after the incident, was 11:48pm. The sighting was too fast for me to record photos or video.
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7 glowing globes floating to Lake Superior from hill sighted west end Alright I’m doing this on my phone but I was snapping friends and excited to see a storm from my deck. I’m watching the clouds roll in and about 50-100 ft not super high but 2 glowing balls are headed from over the hill towards superior (I also have a video my roommate who witnessed it with me got one caught in on film when I was trying) they flew like just over the power lines like light softballs or something of that size. I thought it was a bird but it looked like it was on fire like a firework.
I’m like that can’t be a drone I just seen 5 of them. All different courses but mostly towards superior at different angles just like fast floating in which made me think this isn’t a drone race or something. I saw one maybe 200 ft up headed same direction a few minutes later and pointed it out to my roommate.
She was snapping the double rainbow the clouds were giving and caught the tail end of the last one. I thought I was the only one to see it with her but my g! aming buddy said his girlfriend and neighbor just witnesses one in proctor which is like top of the hill before you enter duluth. I saw roommates snap and told her to save it and email it so it didn’t lose quality and you can still see the object and they all looked just like that one.
All towards superior but different trajectories. Only have the one video was hoping more people saw it and reported it.
Minnesota UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 8 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Delta | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 16 reported sightings | 34.04% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Friday | 11 reported sightings | 23.40% of all reports |
Sunday | 8 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Monday | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings From 2021 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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05/15/21 | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
05/04/21 | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
05/28/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
09/08/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
06/18/21 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Minnesota UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 18 reported sightings | 38.30% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 25.53% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 8 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
All Minnesota Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Minnesota, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Minnesota
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Minnesota.