All Reported UFO Sightings in Mankato, Minnesota

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Metallic rotating/reflective object This metallic object was moving at steady pace. It was rotating with either the reflection or a light.

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I saw a fleet of UFOs straight in a line passing over mankato. The line was so long that it can not be any human made aircraft. Their speed was too fast.

And the lights were in patterns just like of an aircraft.

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Lights that look like a convoy of ISS's moving from southwest, to northeast evenly spaced at first, then gradually spaced farther apart. Saw at least 10-15 lights go over in about 5 minutes, then about 29 minures later, another single light went over. Stopped observing about 21:40 (9:40pm).

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Clear sky, low light, 3 very dim red orbs in the shape of a triangle, transparent silhouette of perfect triangle around three orbs, moved across sky from west to east, about 300m above ground, 50m length, 50m width. Moved very smoothly across visible sky line. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Dim shape in night sky making incredible movements. I had been watching the sky in a dark area for meteors from the recent meteor shower when I saw something fairly dim moving like a satellite but with a silhouette of a shape that was probably twice as long as it was wide. The lighting was steady, no flashing, but again very dim, if even light at all and not just some faint reflection.

It was moving from east to west as I looked towards the north initially, at a fairly decent pace, but nothing unusual for known aircraft. After a couple of seconds it began to move laterally in a fast and seemingly random zig zag pattern. Never turning itself, and with no hesitation in its directional changes.

This went on for maybe 2-4 seconds until it snapped back into its straight line steady pace only this time going back from the direction it came from (west to east) and faded away shortly after that. This is without a doubt the first time in my life where I would confidently say that I had seen a UFO of some kind, based simply on the movement of the object. I recall feeling pretty depressed as I watched it fade away, knowing there was nobody else there to see it with me, and that it didn't hang out longer, and perhaps show off a bit.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Three reddish-white lights in the sky over Mankato. A witness and I saw three reddish-white, round lights in the sky over Mankato, MN, at roughly 00:15 on August 31st, 2014. Looking towards the North from Downtown Mankato, the lights were very clearly visible.

The first of the three headed in a straight line traveling a southwesterly direction, at a slow steady pace, travelling across the sky for roughly one minute. When it neared some thin clouds it seemed to fade to nothing, as if it were going through the cloud. This light appeared and disappeared alone.

The second two lights were the same color/shape/brightness as the first, but followed each other across the sky and appeared shortly after the first faded out. They stayed about the same distance apart and traveled in the same straight line, also fading to nothing. There was a short break between when the first light and the second two were witnessed, approximately 10-15 seconds.

These lights made no sound, moved in a straight line, appeared and disappeared in roughly the same spot in the sky, and traveled at the same speed. I have seen plenty of airplanes/helicopters in the night sky and I can say with certainty that this was something different, as I have never seen anything like this before. They were about the size of a helicopter, but they didn't behave as such, fading out like they did.

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the craft made things slow down and we blacked out a few seconds after we saw said craft. the object was round at first then it changed into a saucer it was glowing orange and white.my car shut off.

then everything slowed down timewise. a bright light shot down right after the craft was over our car. we felt dizzy and the air was filled with static.

then everything went black.thats it. ((NUFORC note: Witness provides limited contact information.

Report submitted shortly after several prank calls placed to the Hotline. PD)).

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I saw a bright light in the sky in North East direction .I thought is it Mars which was supposed to be brightest in the sky once some years that week. I stopped to look at it ,it did not move like for 4 mins and then i suddenly saw it moving from north east direction to south west .

When it flew over me , there was no noise at all , I looked up saw a diamond shape more like rhombus with bright lights at each end and in the center. i am reporting it late after seeing o many videos on youtube which I happened to see accidentally .Now I can say it was an UFO.

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round green fireball On 11-6-04 at 1:15 am i went out to the deck for a smoke and something caught my eye. At first I thought it was a falling star. It was a bright green round object that started falling down then swooped up and flew away at unbelievable speeds.

The funny thing is that me and a friend saw the same type of thing about 8-10 years ago.It almost looks like a green ball of a roman candle but much clearer and moving in different dirrections.

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bright objects in the sky that two us aircraft went over to investigate there were about 4 unidentified objects in the sky. 3 of them were about an inch in length on the horizon, west of Mankato. the best description of them would be like a star wars light saber.

they were bright and moving west to east. there was another one, but this one looked different due to it's path and us observing it. it was only about 2 cm in length.

looked like it was moving away from us. kind of east to west. all of them moved slowly.

two government aircraft were dispatched apparently from the north of us. we saw them fly over us and fly in the direction of the objects. really weird.

two witnesses.

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Four dim lights in a row, flew over my head. One object or four seperate objects I was walking home from work (Bartender) I was not drinking. I happened to look up to my right when I saw a row of dim lights, what seem to be close, right above me (about 200yards ) It could have been one thing or four seperate things.

They made no noise- hum or buzzing- nothing. It moved a little faster than I was walking. The four lights did not blink or flash, they were very dim.

If I was not looking right at them I would not have seen them.In about 15 seconds it was ahead of me. I started to run in the direction it was moving.

I'm not sure but it might have increased it's speed than disapeared over the sight line. I tried to tell myself that it was the belly of birds reflecting light from a near by Hospital's parking lot lights. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Two spheres, one silver, the other emerald. Great speed, seen from 1/4 mile away. I don't recall what day, or exactly what year, however it occurred in January.

Whatever the year was, it was the year of comet Hyukutaki, and the date of the occurance was the night that the comet was to be most visible, for our area and weather. I was driving home from work that evening, and in casual observance I was looking to see if I could spot the comet; not realizing that the comet was to be seen in the eastern night sky, and I was travelling west on hwy. 60.

As I rounded the corner by Crysteel Manufacturing, I saw a luminescent sphere the color of silver, appear from the northern horizon proceeding to the southern horizon and disappering in the distance. At first sight I thought it was the comet, yet in a split second I realized that it was something else. As I wathced; this object flew "nap of the earth", as it crossed over the expressway it appeared to be 100' above the ground, and was about the size of a quarter in perspective from my distance to it.

(1/4 mile). As it continued its flight south, it crossed over a grove of cottonwood, just grazing the tops and silohueting the branches as it passed each succesive grove of trees. The length of time that I observed this was about 6 maybe 7 seconds, and the distance that it travelled from one horizon to the other is about 6+ miles.

Naturally I was in disbeleif of what I saw, even though I knew I saw "something", when about 3 seconds later the second object dropped out of the sky in a very steep angle, as if it had been waiting for the other, and proceeded in the same direction, but with greater speed; the bottom of the second object was at the same tree top height above the ground. This second object was a sphere as well, only of greater magnitude, about football field in diameter. The color of the second sphere was this amazingly emerald green.

To this day, I am still amused by the fact that I saw these two objects that were purposefully flying towards some objective, and that they definetly were not some natural phenomenom that were just ambling throught the air! I also cannot get over how pristine and intense the colors of these objects were; that the colors were not necesarily a surface coloration, but rather a luminuous glow emminating from a reflective metalic surface, like the color you get from anodized metal. ((NUFORC Note: We believe the comet was visible in the spring of 1997. We have amended the date above.

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Ball lightning phenom On my girlfriends birthday so I'm sure of the date. I originally thought that the object was a crashing aircraft that may hit me judging from it's descent path so I slammed on my brakes and killed my engine. (Foolish, I know) Object displayed no engine sound but did may have made a slight electrical crackling sound.

It descended over a small lake in front of me, I was driving a suzuki samuri(Jeep) so I was able to observe it without glass in my line of sight. Object displayed lighting effects on surrounding trees similar to lightning but in a steady stream. Object continued to approach in my general direction untill it was about midway over the lake and in my estimate about 55 feet over the water.

I held my arm strait out with fist to estimate size and at its closest(largest)it was covered by 1/2 with my closed hand. Object definately made a wooshing sound (similar to a flag in high wind) apon leaving and exited at a tremendous speed. I do not believe object was a craft but may have been an example of "Ball Lightning" Though I have read everything I could about the subject science does not seam to understand it.

I believe that it was repelled by its proximity to the water, And I would like to know if this has been reported before. Object approached at an aproximate 40 degree angle and left at an aproximate 45. I can not be certain whether object retreated from me or dissipated so quickly that it appeared to retreat.

Object was white in color similar to a strobe light or lightning flash with some orange.

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my girfriend and i saw an opaque outline of an oval elongated object with lights foreward, midship and aft dissappear within an instant with no sound of any kind. my girfriend and i were returning home at about sunset when we heard the loud noise coming from a propeller plane overhead. we stopped on an open outside porch waiting to see the plane clear our roof line so we could determine if it was in trouble.

the plane cleared our roof line at less than 1000 ft so i thought it was either in trouble or may be trailing a lighted sign for us to see. neither seems to be the case but as we looked at the plane going from east to west we noticed south from our house an opaque shape. the object was about 60 feet long by 30 plus feet high narrower and the ends than the middle with lights fore, aft and midship.

what we really mnoticed was the absence of lights coming from an adjacent street or the four floors of our hospital we normally see or the lights from a 10 story apartment bldg our vision was being blocked by something. we stared at the object and felt we were being watched but neither of us felt afraid. we could not grasp what our eyes were seeing it just would not register.

it is as if you were looking at a puzzle to solve and need a lot of time to solve it after 3 to 5 minutes of us staring at it and looking back at the noisy plane trying to make sense of anything. we kept returning to the object again and again as if each time we refocused it would make sense. within an instant, this does not adequatly describe the spped.

within a millesecond all we could see was a trail of the three lights we noticed stretching for over a mile in the sky. at that momemnt we knew we had come accross something out of anything our mind could accept. there no sound when it left, no noise from the leaves on the trees and bushes which wee near.

no noise at all except from that noisy plane which had turned from east to west to west to east from the south. the other uneplainable was when we first started looking at the object there was a beautiful sunset and when it left the sunset was gone and it was dark. strange yet was the noisy plane was alwys in ear shot with us it never left us.

my girlfriend and me wrote each other notes about waht we saw without dicussing it in detail that night. our notes comapre exactly with the primary emphasis on the speed and no noise. while lokking at the object we kept ying to each " what is this" " what are we seeing" each time we would both say i don't now.

the next day we thought we would contact our local airport to see if we could track down the pilot of the noisy plane but decided not to draw attention to ourselves. however, later the next day while listening to our radio while washing our cars we heard a live broadcast of a sherrif chasinfg a ufo in another county. never heard another word after this.

i would appreciate any kind of response either affirming this report or explaining it away. thanks.

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black submarine shapes oject at ligh speed and orange blasts An object black with lights underneath fore and aft. Impossible for me to determine its size since it blocked out any reference points I could have used. If forced to guess, i would say it was at least 60 feet long by 20 feet or so high shaped like a submarine.

This means there was a distinct center high point but then again the black of the object left me with that impression. The object just appeared with no sound of any kind and or movement of leaves tree branches etc. The event takes palce on or about early June 1988.

My grilfriend at the time and I were just returning from a restaurant at between 7: and 8. We were on the back prch of the house about to enter when we heard the rough missing sound of an air plane engine. As if the plane had no noise abatement of any kind and flying as the sound provoked low to the ground.

We stepped back from the roof line to see what it may be, discovering it was an old rotary engine plane flying approx 200 feet. The palne was very close to us approx half a block to our true north as we were facing true east. The plane was flying directly west into the sunset.

Our eyes followed the plane thinking the noise may represent engine trouble. As the plane passed us heading west and we are now looking more at the rear of the plane we noticed we couldn't see or next door neighbors house to the south. We couldn't see the street lights to ur south or the hospital to the south.

In our way was a large long and high black something blocking out that area. We kept our eyes on the object leaving the back porch to approach it from our back yard. As we aproached my girlfriend and I didn't speak not a word.

We both waled toward the object geting within 15 feet. Once my eyes and mind hooked up -- I realized this was anything but normal and I became uneasy. I looked off to my right or west to see the old plane beginning to bank south accross the then sunset.

I looked back at te object noticing there was a lght fore, aft and mid not blinding by any means but present. I don't know if it was steady or blinking too difficult to know under the stress and confusion. Now here is the good part that can not be comprehended, I don't care who you are.

The object moved directly west at a speed undefined, faster than the fasted movement I can imagine. so fast It is undescribable. All I could see was a trail the lghts made going for miles to the west in an instant.

Just as suddenly, i could see the street lghts, hospital, neighbors house . The other most amazing aspect of the event is there was no sound or air movement. How could a large object move an incredible speed without creating a vacuum or noise only 15 feet away from me? As best I could see and it was only the trailing lights as if a picture was taken with time photography leaving the lens open.

The object flew under the old plane as it continued to bank to the south and east. Immediatly after my senses returned I asked my girlfriend what was that all about and she remained stunned ans silent. After we both came to or thought we had our facilties back we went into the house to write down what we thought happened without sharing a single word other than lets write down what we saw and compare notes.

We both saw the same thing and the essence of our vision is the speed at which the object moved. the blackness of theobject so we couldn't truly see its shape or size and we felt we were being looked at closely. Now the end of the story: We thought about calling our local airport sure the old plane was returning to it flying by site with what light was left.

We talked ourselves out of it not wanting to draw any attention to us. The following day was a Saturday. We were washing our cars in the back yard listening to a local station on the radio.

There was a break in by the announcer saying a sheriff or policeman was chasing a ufo near blue earth minnesota. the anouncer had the sheriff or policeman on line saying he would spped towrds the object getting within a block or two when the object would speed off at 90 degress at phonominal speed for a few miles and stop again. After about ten minutes the activity of the law man stopped and the station went back to normal broadcasting and not another word was said of the incident.

You coulod verify the incident by calling Blue earth police it was very near to that farming comunity. Finally-- one night in the early fall and it was pitch dark out. A group of us were returning from a another night at a restaurant -- no drinking-- at or about 8;00 when we noticed a huge explosion like lobe orange in color from the ground to about 100 feet by 100 feet and a true half circle.

We had met at the restaurant so we were in idividual cars all returning home as neighbors. The area is in the country between two small towns some 15 miles apart. One is Cleveland MN and the direction of the orange lobes was toward Madison Lake MN.

Every 3 to 4 minutes there would be another huge orange lobe coming from the ground and moving awa from us. We tried to follow the orage lobes like bomb blasts for the next 15 miles but couldn't keep up. As we traveled the 15 miles we could see the orange blasts from the road going into the horizon.

I believe i was travelling south but not sure. It was single orange blast with no sound nothin like lightning more like a half sphere shape associtaed with a bomb blast. all of the neighbors saw it and wondered again what in the hades did we just see.