Jan. thru Dec., 2000 UFO Reports


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Jan., 2000 Reports

Occurred : 1/16/2000 18:00 (Entered as : 01/16/00 18:00)
Reported: 1/22/2000 20:40
Posted: 2/16/2000
Location: Becker (approx. 5 miles W of, on Hwy 10 towards St. Cloud), MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:10sec
Traveling east along Hwy 10 around dusk, triangular craft spotted between 
Hwy and power plant.

While a passenger in back seat of car traveling east on Hwy 10. Woman describes 
seeing trangular shadow out passenger window slowly hovering low over field 
between road and large power plant that is 1.5mi away. She said the craft was 
barely visible in dust but that it had 3 lights in a triangle. Red, green, and white. As 
car continued east she followed craft through back window as it crossed the 
highway slowly and went behind trees on north side. No sounds heard and craft 
was approximately 60' off ground. Moved very slowly, lights on ends were relatively 
small compared to craft.

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Sighting Date/Time: January 27th  11:30pm
Sighting Location: In my home, looking out the kitchen window.

Sighting Description: I often look out at the sky when standing at the 
kitchen sink.  There is an excellent view of the western/northwestern sky, 
as my house overlooks a large pond in that direction.  The sky seemed to be 
fairly clear and all the lights inside the house were turned off, since the 
family had already retired for the night, so I had a good view of the sky. 
The time was approximately 11:30pm.  When I stepped to the window, I noticed 
a group of four alternately blinking colored lights at my 10 o'clock position 
in the sky, about 70 degrees up from the horizon.  The lights resembled those 
of an airplane.  They were moving slowly from southwest to northeast, similar 
to what normal commercial aircraft do.  The lights were blinking at a two 
second rate, which seemed a bit slow compared to what I see on commercial 
craft that fly over.  The apparent size was that of a penny held at arm's 
length.

After about 10 seconds, the lights slowed down and stopped, hovered, for 
about two seconds.  I would estimate the horizontal distance from me at 
this point to be approximately 1,000 feet or less, although the altitude 
of the craft seemed to be similar to what I see private aircraft fly at.  
The lights then slowly made a sharp turn to the left and moved off in a 
westerly direction.  They continued to move into the distance, at times 
seeming to come to a stop, then continuing slowly on, until I lost sight 
of them several miles away.  I kept them in view for about 6 minutes.   

The hovering and slow movement ruled out an airplane for me, and I then 
thought it must have been a helicopter.  However, several helicopters have 
flown over the house since that night, which has reminded me how loud they 
are during the winter, no matter what their altitude.  I've come to the 
conclusion this was a genuine sighting.  Unfortunately, because I was 
thinking 'helicopter' at the time, I didn't really notice the color 
configuration of the lights, although I took notice they were in a diamond-
shaped configuration, and rather bright.  They were definitely colored 
white and blue, but again, I'm not sure in my mind which were white and 
which were blue. 

I'm forty-five years old and a computer specialist.  I often watch the 
sky, but have never seen anything out of the ordinary until now, and so 
have remained reasonably skeptical, although very interested in the UFO 
subject.  We often sky-gaze during the summer, sighting satellites and 
shooting stars at the cabin, and I've always been a closet amateur 
astronomer, so I'm familiar with the night sky, and consider myself to 
be a good witness.

I'd be very interested to know if anyone else in the area sighted this 
craft.

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MULTICOLORED UFO SEEN IN ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA

      On Friday, January 28, 2000 at 9 p.m.,
and again on Saturday, January 29, 2000 at
5:30 a.m., residents of Elk River, Minnesota
(population 11,143) spied an unusual object
with bright multicolored lights hovering near  their
homes.
      "We first noticed a bright red light in the sky,"
Denise M. reported.  "At first I thought it was a jet
since we have jets that pass over making their
descent into MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport--J.T.)  The UFO approached from the east
and hovered.  The longer I watched, I realized it was
not moving.  It was also emitting blue, green, red and
white lights."
      "I went and got my binoculars so I could look at
it closer.  Viewing it through the binoculars, you could
see that it had white lights that ran around the bottom
of the object, and blue, green and red lights were
flashing from the top."
      "I watched for approximately 45 minutes before it
moved to the south, then hovered in that position."
      "During this time, I called a neighbor to verify what
I was seeing.  He also tried to look through the
binoculars and agreed he had never seen anything
like it.  This continued for approximately two-and-a-
half minutes before it disappeared to the southeast."
      "From a distance, it appeared to be moving quite
slowly.  Could someone respond back if they've seen
anything similar?"
      Elk River is on Highway 10 approximately
22 miles (34 kilometers) north of Minneapolis.
(UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 5, Number 5, February 3, 2000
Editor: Joseph Trainor, Masinaigan@aol.com
http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/)

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Feb., 2000 Reports

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report 
Occurred : 2/1/2000 23:00 (Entered as : 02/01/2000 23:00)
Reported: 10/19/2003 7:05:01 PM 19:05
Posted: 10/31/2003
Location: Babbitt, MN
Shape: Other
Duration:8-10 minutes 
Opaque white beams of light that repeatedly hit a lamp, turning it on and off...
I dont recall the exact date of this, all i know is it was in the winter of 99-00, probably 
between January and February 00. Its taken me awhile to come forward cuz it was a very 
scary experience, and many people would question my sanity. It was shortly after 11:00 pm, 
and i was reading up in my living room by myself. We lived on shore property of a lake at 
the time, and our living room was an upper story room directly overlooking our lake. My 
recliner was right next to our huge picture windows, and it was a great view...anyways, i 
simply saw a beam of light shoot into my house. It didnt just "appear", it seemed to grow 
from a point i could not tell over the lake, and expand into the room. It was about the 
diameter of a softball, and very opaque white in color. The most incredible thing though, 
is that when it reached its furthest point, it actually hit the lamp kiddy-corner from me in 
the room! Immediately the light turned OFF and the "lazer beam" just withdrew. I was so 
completely stunned that i just sat and stared-i mean this beam had passed no more than 
2 feet directly in front of me and turned off one of my lights! So i tried not to freak out, 
and decided to stay where i was and watch. No more than a minute later the same beam 
shot back in, hit the lamp, and turned it on! At this point, i was beyond scared. So i got 
up and ran into my bathroom, crouching low to my floor so i wouldnt get hit. The bathroom 
was directly to the right of the lamp that was being hit, so i partially closed the door to 
"protect" myself and still watch. For the next 5-6 minutes the beam continued to shoot in, 
turn on or off the light, then recede. After those 5 or so minutes, it didnt happen again, 
the light just remained off. So from there i booked it downstairs to my mother's room. 
She was trying to sleep of course so when i frantically woke her and raved about "lazer 
beams", naturally she was a lil' peeved! But my mom sat up with me to look out her 
window (same lake view as upstairs) ! for a couple minutes. We actually saw different 
beams of white light shooting horizontally in various directions. By the time 10-ish minutes 
were done, the lights were done. I (carefully) went upstairs to make sense of it all attempt 
sleep. I must add to this that When i went back up there, i heard a very low-decibal sounding 
hum, that kind of vibrated inside my ears, and it seemed to be all around and above our 
house. I figured i was only hearing the refridgerator, but i know how that sounds-quieter 
and higher piched than this new sound-plus i heard it shut off short after. The low humming 
continued a few more minutes, but i was so spooked i went to bed! I should also add that 
there were other instances when we lived on the lake that we had seen diagonal light beams, 
discs, and strange sattelite-type lights. I was 15 at the time, just a home-school student 
getting ready to go to college early, and always an honest, intelligent person. I was most 
definately not on any hallucinogenic drugs either! My mother can vouche for what i saw, 
and i'm happy to share it w/ u. But i do have a ?: has anyone else seen these? I really 
havent heard anything quite like what i saw, inspite of the fact that i listen to Art Bell and 
Whitley Strieber religiously! O- almost forgot to add that the next morning when i examined 
the window the glass was fine, the screen looked sorta burnt, and there was a perfect circle 
melted out of the weather plastic! WHY? 

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Occurred : 2/15/2000 19:11 (Entered as : 2/15/00 19:11)
Reported: 2/21/2000 16:22
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Barnum, MN
Shape: Teardrop
Duration:00:05
I had been driving home from work and I seen lights rotating. I stopped and backed 
up to get a better look. While backing up the UFO quickly reversed with me. I 
shifted into drive and the UFO followed me for another 100 yards. Then it began to 
retreat as I hurried home. The UFO had multiple lights originating on the larger part 
of the teardrop, and had a number between 2-4 lights on the narrow part of the craft.
Many lights (6-7) originated from the larger part of the teardrop shaped craft. While 
only 2-4 came from the narrow tip. It was extremely fast in the way it followed my 
reverse. It had been hovering about 100 feet from the roadside over trees. The lights 
were like chasing lights it would start from the front from where I could see and 
move to the left. Then it would skip an area and continue along the back until it 
came around to the front again. It seemed to have a dome shaped area on top of 
it on the larger end, and the bottom appeared to be flat.

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Mar., 2000 Reports

Occurred : 3/6/2000 22:20 (Entered as : 03/06/00 22:20)
Reported: 3/6/2000 02:29
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Hugo, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:30 seconds
Me and my friend witness a bright blue light moving rapidly across the sky. It 
moved across 60 degrees of the sky approximately, then disappeared.

On the above date and time, me and my friend were taking a walk along an unlit 
street near where I live. My friend pointed and told me to look over my left shoulder, 
in the east. I saw a bright light about the size of a dime at arms length, the light was 
a blueish white color, it was moving fairly quickly across the sky, but there was 
plenty of time for me to turn my head and see it for about 10 or 20 seconds, the 
light moved from the northeast to the southeast in an arcing path, which led me to 
believe it was far away. Before the object reached the horizon it disappeared. We 
heard no noise. I do not believe this was a shooting star because it was way to 
big, it was constant, and it lasted too long.

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Occurred : 21:30 (Entered as : 09/xx/92 2130)
Reported: 3/12/2000 02:59
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Golden Valley, MN
Shape: Flash
Duration:2.5 hours
A strobe light flashed for 2 1/2 hours over a neighbor's house.
It was in late September, 1992. The evening was warm and balmy, and large white 
clouds drifted by at low altitude. I was driving back home from the local convenience 
store around 9:30pm, and had just pulled onto my street in Golden Valley, when I 
saw a flash in a cloud. It was roughly directly ahead of me, and at some unknown 
altitude. I thought at first that it was an airliner with brighter strobe lights (the FAA is 
always testing new anti-collision devices). I remarked out loud to myself, "He's too 
low!". He was not only low, I felt, but also off course! That was definitely not the 
approach to the Mpls/St.Paul airport that I'd seen any planes take. I pulled into the 
garage, stowed my groceries, and decided to wander out to the deck since it was 
so nice outside. I had been outside only a few seconds when I saw another flash. It 
looked like the same one I'd seen before, but now it was southeast of me instead of 
almost straight south. It came from the same cloud I'd seen earlier! (It was a very 
large, white cloud, and unmistakable). I watched it for quite a while and noticed that 
it flashed about every 30 seconds. Finally, I was able to see - very dimly - a 
searchlight beam originating in the south, going around in a circle, and striking 
something with each pass. When the beam made contact, something flashed in 
the cloud. I had NEVER seen anything like this before! Why I didn't try to photograph 
it or turn my binoculars on it, I'll never know. I simply stood there and thought, "Isn't 
that interesting...." - knowing full well that it was very interesting, and unexplainable. 
Finally, I went into the house and watched the 10 o'clock news til about 10:30. When 
I came out again, the flashing was still continuing! I went in again, and came out at 
perhaps 11:00pm. The clouds had now drifted away, but the flashing continued with 
each sweep of the searchlight! Even though the clouds were gone, when it flashed, 
there seemed to be a variable haze around the flash. This went on until midnight 
when the searchlight quit. So it was hovering (?) near my house for at least 2 1/2 
hours - possibly longer. It was late and 3 of my neighbors had young children at 
that time, so I didn't feel comfortable calling them at 10:00 or 11:00pm or later, to 
say, "Come out and look at this strobe light which flashes every 30 seconds...". I 
mentioned it to a friend in our UFO group (an engineering type), and he had never 
heard of anything like it either. I was able to triangulate its location using a city map
left over from the Street Light Project in our neighborhood, since I had 2 sightings of 
the object from 2 different angles. This thing was located approximately over the 
street or over a neighbor's house in front of my house! Frankly, I was flabbergasted - 
even though the triangulation was simple, and could really have been done in my 
head if I'd been thinking. Since that episode, I've purchased a videocamera and a 
500,000 candlepower, hand-held, portable searchlight. Maybe next time (if there IS 
a next time), I won't be so timid and mush-brained! Next time, I will videotape it, put 
a searchlight on it, use the binoculars, and call a neighbor for corroboration.

***

Occurred : 3/21/2000 21:00 (Entered as : 03/21/00 21:00)
Reported: 3/23/2000 21:29
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Duluth, MN
Shape:
Duration:5 - 7 seconds
Pulsating star-like object described a semi-circle around the middle star of the 
handle of the Big Dipper and then vanished. No object visible. Just a pulsating/
winking light ... one color (white). Sky was clear.

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Apr., 2000 Reports

Issue: I..2-594
ABSTRACT:           	Triangle Ship Above Rochester Minnesota
DATE:              	04/08/2000
HOUR:               	21:03
DURATION:           	1-5_minutes
LATITUDE:           	92.29W
LONGITUDE:          	44.01N
COUNTRY:            	USA
STATE_PROVINCE:     	MN
COUNTY:             	Olmstead
NEAR_TOWN_OR_CITY:  	Rochester
SITE:               	rural
SKY:                	clear
NUMBER_OBSERVED:    	1
ELEVATION:          	0-10_degrees
LOWEST_ALTITUDE:    	treetop
DISTANCE:           	101-500_feet
FLIGHT:             	path_with_direction_change, hovering
DIRECT_FIRST_OBSVED:	S
DIRECT_LAST_OBSVED: 	NW
SHAPE:              	triangle
SURFACE:            	dark
APPARENT_SIZE:      	larger
ACTUAL_SIZE:        	over_300_feet
SURFACE_COLOR:      	black
EXT_LIGHTS:         	steady, brightened
EXT_LIGHTS_COLOR:   	white
CHANGE_COLOR:       	no
PSYCH_DURING_EVENT: 	calmness, other
PSYCH_AFTER_EVENT:  	calmness, other
PHYSIO_DURING_EVENT:	other
PHYSIO_AFTER_EVENT: 	other

We were driving home after dinner and we were in sight of our house. When we
rounded the corner There were many bright lights that all seemed to be a part of
some craft. It looked exactly like an airplane with its lights on,without the
airplane, but it just hovered therefor about a minute.We were all calm. Then
just as we turned at the intersection we had stopped at the object took off and
It flew away in an upward curved direction with a heavy bank to it. When turned
on its side in its turn I saw the triangle shape. The flat bottom of the
triangle was the front and the point was the back. It dissapered quickly.

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Occurred : 4/13/2000 20:00 (Entered as : 04/13/00 20:00)
Reported: 4/16/2000 23:35
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Waite Park, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:30 seconds
A bright light was seen in the sky that remained stationary. We lost track of it 
and then noticed a similar light in the northern sky. The light then faded away.

It was an overcast day with no sky visible, just clouds. My friend and I were 
driving north on 2nd Ave S in Waite Park, MN when I noticed bright white light 
in the western sky to my friend. I commented on it and asked my friend 'what 
in the hell that was'. He thought it might have been an airplane, but I thought it 
was too bright. I took my eye off the object when we neared an intersection. I 
lost track of the light and dismissed it as mildly unusual. As we cleared the 
intersection, still headed north bound we both noticed an identical light in the 
northern sky. It was easy to follow, because we were driving in that direction. 
We watched the light for approximately 5 seconds when it seemingly lost its 
illumination slowly. It seemed to take a couple of seconds for the light to 
disappear. When it did there was no visual evidence of anything else in the sky, 
no aircraft, no nothing. By the way the light dissapated I thought it might be 
some sort of flare, but there was no ascent or descent of the light, rather it 
seemed to just disappear. It seemed possible that it may have been an aircraft, 
but the light was too bright and didn't seem to move and with the cloud cover 
being so great or distance of vision would have noticed a movement in an 
aircraft. The light never blinked, but seemed to be greatly illuminated. There 
were no towers or tall buildings in that area. In both cases the object appeared 
to be around 30 degrees ascension. I would have dismissed one strange light, 
but two in totally different areas of the sky in such short a length of time didn't 
make any sense to me or my friend. The bright white light was not huge in 
diameter. It seemed bigger than an airplane light. It was hard to gauge the 
distance, but like I mentioned earlier, it was overcast so it couldn't of been 
really far away. My witness and myself are in or mid 20's, don't do drugs, are 
sane individuals who witnessed something unusual. Any feedback on other 
simmilar sightings, or some sort of explanation would be great!

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May, 2000 Reports

Sighting Date/Time: 5/12/00  maybe 11:45-12:10PM
Sighting Location: Sighting occured while on the beach of the 
Minnesota river, approx 3 miles E-NE of Le Sueur, MN

Sighting Description: We were fishing on the bank of the Minnesota River.  
We had all been watching for satelites and had even had 2 in perpendicular 
orbits pass real close to one another (2" at arms-length I'd estimate)and 
there was about 5 of us seeing it. We all thought that was cool. August 
also sees an increase in meteoric activity, which we all took in. Skies 
were mostly clear, humid, 70F, 1/2? moon in the West. 

I had been left on the shore to watch the catfish lines while my friends 
went back to town to get another 4X4 truck.  I sat, watching satelites go 
by, and the frequent falling stars, when I looked North to the lowest part 
of the spoon in the Big Dipper constellation.  I watched a light become 
bright as it moved in what would become a S-SE direction.  I assumed, that 
the increase in light intensity was due to the sun's position below the 
horizon, and the satelite entering the light from the long-set Sun.  (We 
know that as satelites move into the Earth's shadow, the light fades and 
they disappear.  And I grew up in the country with my dad's 8" reflector 
Celestron with the Earth-clock tripod, so I know my way around the stars 
well enough to hold the evening's conversation.) 

Anyway, as I watched the "satelite" move, I noticed that it was a slower 
speed than any of the (at least 6) satelites I had observed in that evening, 
and suddely I saw another appear behind it, maybe 1/2" at arms-length at 
perhaps 4 o'clock as looking at a clock.  I thought that this was a treat, 
since seeing two satelites in such proximity is rare, (if not totally 
regulated "illegal" by some NASA trajectory-assignment committee).  From 
the time I saw the first, until the second appeared, was possibly 20 seconds.  
At this point, they may have been 3/4 of the distance through an arc between 
the horizon and a vertical axis going up through my body.  As soon as I saw 
the second, I had two reference points moving in the sky, and was 
immediately aware that the speed of one was erratic at best.  Using the 
stars in the background, I was then able to verify that they traveled 
less a trajectory, but rather in a meandering direction, neither holding 
a constant speed at this point.  The second never passed the first.  Then, 
as they were at a point I would describe as 11 O'clock, I saw the third.  
I felt a rush of dissapointment that everyone had left.  I watched the 
three lights, and I hate to try and judge their altitude, but I would put 
them as "orbit".  If you were to hold a 30/60/90 triangle up in the air, 
with the right-angle facing to your right, that is a good representation 
of the "formation" they tried to hold, and the hypotenuese of the triangle 
would be no larger than an inch at arms-length.  They all seemed to 
"inch-worm" across the sky, all wavering slightly in direction, still 
traveling at what must have been an ungodly speed, with conservative 
accelerations to what seemed to be trying to preserve the formation.  At 
this point, I had been watching them for problably 2 minutes, had taken 
off my glasses, looked away, shook my head, opened a 7Up, looked back and 
they were all still there.  I shouted at them, waved, screamed at them 
that their formation looked shitty, and began to realize that the third, 
the dimmest of the three could not keep control.  The second seemed to 
act as a "chase-plane", like the Tigers that follow the Shuttle's entry.  
Sometimes, the second would slow to alongside the third, making an 
equalateral triangle, sometimes drop behind, but not for long.  It seemed 
intent on trying to hold its own position in the formation.  I hate to 
say it, but it seemed like none of them were keeping control.  I watched 
them for what I would estimate as 4.5-5 minutes, as they crossed the arc 
of the sky.  It actually became boring, as I wanted to see some of those 
eye-blinking accelerations I have heard of.  But they continued to stumble 
their way across the sky at from my vantage seemed a languid, hap-hazardly 
jaunt.

They faded out of light in the S-SE, as would a satelite re-entering the 
Earth's shadow.  That's one of the reasons I say their altitude was 
orbit-level.

One of the most disturbing parts of this life-event was that I really was 
not excited, during or after.  Somehow, I have been de-sensitized, and I 
wonder what that says about myself.  I saw 3 UFOs last night, the first 
time in my life I can really say "I can't say".  If they were our military, 
of which I am a vet, I should have studied math harder and become a pilot 
of one of THESE.  We certainly wouldn't need a 60 billion-dollar missile 
defense system if we can jack-hop around in orbit, at what I would put at 
something I would only say to the mirror as 18,000mph, with instant 
25,000mph jumps. (Knowing average orbit speeds, and those "at rest" with 
the rotation of the Earth, and all that space-trivia junk.)  Who knows, 
without a good distance reference, its all guesswork.

I try to live in the close-mindedness or quasi-denial of ET life superior 
of our own, it makes going to work 5 days a week easier. This morning I 
realized there was a video camera 15 feet away. 

***

Occurred : 5/13/2000 23:30 (Entered as : 5/13/00 23:30)
Reported: 5/14/2000 05:09
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Randall, MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 min.
Large dark triangle against the clouds with deep orange/yellow lights on 
two of the three sides.

Large dark triangle against the clouds with deep orange/yellow lights on two 
of the three sides.The object floated and rotated for about five minutes and 
then seemed to maybe land somewhere off to the east of the highway. I rolled 
down the windows to listen, but there was no sound. It moved very slowly, and 
had to be about 1000-2000 feet wide.

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National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report 
Occurred : 5/14/00 17:00 (Entered as : 5-14-2000 1700)
Reported : 5/14/00 22:51
Posted : 6/6/00
Location : Millston, WI
Shape : Disk I was traveling down us highway 12 near Millston Wi. 
Car Suddenly killed and I had to coast to a stop. Car refused to 
start. I got out to lift up the hood. I heard a sound coming down the 
road from the east. I looked and it was a disk shape object that 
looked like a huge top spinning on the road. I ran inside my car and 
looked at it and it suddenly became airborne. It shot sraight up. It 
did this at about 75 yards from my car. It scared the living hell out of 
me. I did not tell anyone because they would not beleive me. I will 
never travel this road again .I had to report this to someone and I 
thought this was the best place. Also object made a humming 
sound as it traveled on the road.

((NUFORC Note: Anonymous report. We would like to correspond 
or speak with the individual who submitted the report. PD))

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Occurred : 5/15/2000 22:00 (Entered as : 5/15/2000 22:00)
Reported: 5/31/2000 12:42
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Virginia, MN
Shape: Other
Duration:30secs
These objects were well lit of gold colors, in the shape of a boomerang, or a 
batwing. from the size of a double fist to a little larger. Flew directly over the 
downtown area of Virginia,Mn. I am an avid watcher of the day and night skies. 
I have seen numerous craft over the ore mines in the area of the Iron Range
in northern Mn. Please contact me at ((address deleted)) please do I have 
much info!!!!!!!!!

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Occurred : 5/15/2000 22:50 (Entered as : 05/15/00 22:50)
Reported: 9/5/2001 01:52
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Shakopee, MN
Shape: Fireball
Duration:5 Sec
Fireball that changed course

Object was moving from south to north, below cloud cover. Speed and motion 
resembled a meteor, except that object executed approx 5-10 degrees to western 
sky in mid-course. Shortly afterward (1-2 sec) object was gone.  ((NUFORC Note: 
Date is approximate. Source is anonymous. PD))

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June, 2000 Reports

WISCONSIN FLYING DISC LANDS

MILWAUKEE - Kenny Young reports he received a report from Vaughn and his 
girlfriend who observed a UFO on Sunday morning June 4th, 2000.  Liz and 
Vaughn were sitting on top of a slide in the middle of a field in a southern 
suburb of Milwaukee at 2:00 AM.  Liz pointed out rather bright lights in the 
sky and said, "Is that a UFO?"  Vaughn says, the lights were very wide across 
and it looked like the lights of a baseball stadium.  I could see the dome 
like shape of the craft in the air.  I told her "It's a UFO, I'm serious, 
lets get out of here!"  The object was coming towards us but still appeared 
to be about two miles away.  Liz laughed because she thought I was trying to 
scare her, but she soon realized I was serious.  We stared for a few more 
seconds, when the craft turned sharply to the right, and it hovered about a 
mile away.  We ran to our car that parked on the street.  Liz exclaimed, "The 
craft was landing, almost like it was going down stairs."  We got in my car 
and drove toward it.  We spotted it sitting on the road about five blocks 
away.  Again, it appeared to be coming towards us, so I turned the car 
around.  When I looked in my rearview mirror, it was gone.  We are both 
16-year-old high school students.  We're not stupid, or on drugs.  We both 
have high grades in school.  Whatever we saw on the ground was what we saw in 
the sky.  Thanks, Kenny Young at UFO Research 
http://home.fuse.net/ufo/ufo@fuse.net 

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Occurred : 6/4/2000 02:00 (Entered as : 06/04/00, 02:00) 
Reported : 6/11/2000 00:21 
Posted : 6/21/2000 
Location : Milwaukee (South), WI 
Shape : Disk We saw a bright row of lights in the sky attached 
to a saucer-shaped craft. We saw the craft land in a nearby street and 
approached it We saw a bright set of lights in the sky (like stadium lights) 
that appeared to be about 1 1/2 away. The lights dimmed. The craft made a 
sharp turn to the right and hovered. We ran to our car. We saw the craft 
land through the bushes. It landed almost like it was going down stairs. 
We drove about 1/2 mile twords it and saw the craft in the middle of the 
street. It appeared to be moving twords us. We Y-turned and when we 
looked back it was gone completely. ((NUFORC Note: We received no 
other reports from this area for this time. The witness, a student, does not 
state what he and his friends were doing at the time of the sighting. PD)) 
.....my notes.....i saw this far, far off in the sky, and wouldn't have noticed it 
at all except i happened to stare at the same area for awhile, and noticed 
that this 'star' was very slowly moving. i'm not sure of the exact time, but 
at this point it was quite dim, like a star on it's way out...quite a clever 
disguise...i had seen this once before about 5 years ago, and pretty much 
just as soon as i started thinking about how 5 years ago the 'star' turned 
into an EXTREMELY bright spherical row of lights (stadium lights), this 
'star' did the same...these were very obviously seperated lights, not any 
kind of trail from a shooting star...i've seen plenty of shooting stars when i 
was younger up north, and this was nothing like those...even though this 
was very far off in the distance, once the 'star' turned to the bright lights, 
they were almost blinding....then it just 'hovered' for maybe 20-40 
seconds, and it kind of freaked me out, as i got the sensation that 
whatever it was, be it government, alien or spirit, it felt like i was being 
watched, and as soon as i thought this it turned back into the 'star' started 
moving quite fast and just disappeared .....i was letting my dogs out when i 
saw this.....also, when it shifted appearances, it was like it was 'morphing', 
like it was actually taking on different properties....i'm surprised not more 
people noticed it, at least the little while that it was so incredibly bright, but 
i suppose the majority of city people don't care about nature anymore
((NUFORC Note: This report is submitted anonymously. PD))

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Posted : 6/6/00
Location : Sun Prairie, WI
Shape : Unknown 3 beams of light, silent, 7 other lights - South 
Central WI

The object was silent, hovering approximately 200 feet from the 
road above a empty farm field. It was approximate 3-4 stories high 
(in relation to a building) and sat there silent. It emitted 3 dim beams 
of light downward while it also had a "plus" shape of lights in a row 
of 3 one way and 4 the other way. As I watched it, it gently moved 
away from me, and made no noise at all. It did not speed away, it 
barely moved. Very interesting. Not in a flight pattern as I had just 
come from the airport and flew in from Chicago as well.

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Occurred : 6/8/2000 01:00 (Entered as : 06/08/2000 0100)
Reported: 6/29/2000 22:09
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Ely, MN
Shape: Diamond
Duration:1 min
We were camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on Basswood Lake near 
Ely, Minnesota. That particular evening we fished until 11:00pm and returned to 
camp to build a fire. My little brother had went to sleep in the tent while myself and 
our other couterpart went to the point to observe the stars. We admired the scenery 
for a while when we noticed a star that appeared to be descending from the sky. It 
was a blue diamond shaped object that seemed to be falling from the sky. We 
became aprehensive when the object began to descent twoard us. As the object 
became closer I was contemplating my escape, which would be impossible through 
the enourmous amout of dense forest and underbush however, my main concern 
was my little brother asleep in the tent 100 feet behind us. We said if the object 
made it to the island 350 yards infront of us we were going to make a break for it. 
All of a sudden the object make a complete 90 degree turn and headed directly 
north at a speed that I can not even estimate. Immediately after we seen this 
phenomenon we decided to turn in for the night. To this day my counterpart and I 
still have the same exact recollection of that particular evening. I was wondering if 
any of the other campers on Basswood at that time had observed the same 
experience. I know that the object flew direclty over another capsite on the adjourinig 
point beore heading north to Canada. I am reluctant to submit my personal 
information for fear of riducule and to protect my professional reputatuion. This 
was second of my sighings while camping as a teenager near Clinton Lake, 
Lawrence Kansas in the late 80's a myself and a friend observed an object that 
would split into several smaller objects and would all of a sudden reapperar from 
all directions to form one object for a multi hour duration.
((NUFORC Note: Anonymous report.))

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Occurred : 6/9/2000 23:00 (Entered as : 06/09/00 23:00)
Reported: 1/14/2001 14:19
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Circle Pines, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:15 sec.
flaring white light

We were sitting outside when a white light, which was at that moment stationary, 
gradually flared very bright and large. It was perfectly silent and seemed far away 
even when it was at its largest. Then it reduced its size and emanation and began 
moving--it must have been very fast because it seemed like it was moving outward 
into space. It grew smaller and disappeared in a very small distance from where it 
had been stationary. Exactly 2 weeks later and at just about the same time we saw 
it again, exactly as we'd seen it the first time.
((NUFORC Note: Sighting is consistent with the flare of an Iridium satellite. PD))

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Occurred : 6/15/2000 02:00 (Entered as : 2000 02:00)
Reported: 2/3/2002 3:25:28 AM 03:25
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Oakdale, MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:
I couldnt really see because it was at night but it was a round shape and it looked 
as tho it was flying under an airplane or following it because there was also an 
airplane right next to it. it had many little lights on the side of it and it was traveling 
at high speeds as though it was trying to keep up with the plane.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous. PD))

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Occurred : 6/15/2000 18:30 (Entered as : 6/15/00 18:30)
Reported: 6/29/2002 7:50:49 PM 19:50
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Chanhassen, MN
Shape: Disk
Duration:5 seconds
I saw a quick glimpse of two dark orange sandy colored saucers probably about 20 
feet each in diameter.

The two objects seemed like they were dodging each other but they were the exact 
same shape and color which was like a dark orange sandy looking saucer. I only 
saw them for about 5 seconds because i looked up when me and my mom were 
turning in a car and i couldn't see them any more because a lot of tree's were in 
the way. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. PD))

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Occurred : 6/17/2000 02:50 (Entered as : 6/17/2000 02:50)
Reported : 6/18/2000 13:24
Posted : 6/21/2000
Location : Sheboygan, WI

Shape : Unknown Unusual Three points of light formation travel across 
sky in a northeast direction at 02:50 6/17/00

I am an amateur astronomer. On the early morning of 6/17/00 I awoke early 
and decided to go outside on my open sky back porch and observe the 
sky since it was a beautiful clear sky. There was a full moon out so the sky 
was fairly bright but still quite clear. I was enjoying the sky seeing several 
meteors and a few satellites. At aprox 02:50 am I notices some movement 
almost directly straight up from my position. The object or objects were 
extremely high (I can only guess as high as most satellites). The thing that 
was extremely odd was that this object or objects had three distinct 
equally bright points of light that all moved in formation at exactly the 
same speed and direction. The direction of travel was toward the 
northeast. The distance between each point of light was about the width 
of a thumbnail at arms length. The object formed an equilateral triangle 
with a single point of light in the front of the object (northeast side). The 
color of each point of light was bright white (similiar to a bright satelite). 
The object or objects traveled in a straight line of direction at a constant 
speed. If it had been only one point of light I would have believed this to 
be a satelite. I have never seen a satelite with three points of light. I am 
sure this was not a common flying object because it had to be at an 
extremely high altitude. The object traveled at about the same speed as 
most satellites.

((NUFORC Note: We believe that the witness describes three satellites that 
orbit in formation, and which have been reported to us on numerous 
occasions. We suspect that they are the three "N.O.S.S." satellites that are 
reported to have been placed in orbit under a U. S. Navy program. Mr. 
Terence Dickinson, journalist for the Toronto (Canada) Star newspaper 
investigated the phenomenon during the summer of 1996, when the 
satellites were first reported by astronomers, and many other sky 
watchers. If anyone can provide NUFORC with more information about the 
satellites, we would be grateful. PD))

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Occurred : 6/21/2000 23:15 (Entered as : 6/21/00 23:15pm)
Reported: 6/21/2000 23:06
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: St. Peter (outskirts of), MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:1min
Bright yellowins green extrmely fast cirular object leaving a light trail as it traveled 
upward out of sight

The object seen was a circular object seen in the eastern skies. IT was a bright 
yellowinsh green color. Its motion was faster then any of us had ever seen before, 
the object travel back and forth and an extrodinary speed. At this point a spot light 
of great magnitude could have been the result but as we continued to watch this 
object in the sky it began to move faster, it mad 2 or 3 quick moments upward, 
then a great burst of speed it took off upward into the sky. It had a light trail and left 
what seemed to be a vapor trail. By our understanding, the only possible way 
something is able to leave a light trail is if it is traveling the speed of light or beyond, 
but not positive about that fact. Me as well as the other witnesses have pnndered 
the sighting and an ufo is the only reasonable thing that we ahve agreed on.

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June 22, 2000 sighting

A man living in Hastings had taken a part-time 
job as a night janitor.  On the eveing of June 22, 
2000 he was carrying bags out to a dumpster
when his attention was directed to eight 
spherical white lights in the northern sky.  Subjectively,
he felt that each of the lights appeared to be the
size of a full moon, that they were possibly
200 - 300 feet away from him at an altitude of 
200 feet, and at an angle up at 45 degrees.  It
was at about 11:00 PM.  The witness estimated
the actual size of each light as similar to that of 
a "washtub."
 
The interesting aspect of the encounter was the
behavior of the objects.  They existed in pairs as 
one might imagine two baseballs close together, 
but not touching.  The pairs would be briefly
located at the 12:00, 3:00. 6:00, and 9:00 positions,
then quickly move simultaneously in a clockwise
circular path to new positions at the opposite side
of the circle.
 
The witness watched them for a while and then walked
back into the building to continue his work.  As he did
so, it was his impression that the group moved 
parallel with him while continuing their rapid
intermittent circling around a common center.
 
After working for a few minutes he decided to go out 
and look at them again.  They were still there and 
maneuvering.
 
He went back into the clinic but would walk over to a
window from time to time and see the objects still in
the sky.  Once more he went outside but the objects
were gone.  The incident had lasted for about twenty
minutes.
 
He called the sheriff to inquire if others had seen
lights in the sky, but there had been no such reports.
 
A possible explanation would suggest some kind of
advertising searchlight reflected off clouds.  At some
point the investigation will resume in attempting to
see if there has ever been such a spotlight used
in Hastings, and if so, if it was in use on the night
of June 22, 2000.
 
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Occurred : 6/22/2000 22:35 (Entered as : 06/22/00 22:35)
Reported : 6/23/2000 10:11
Posted : 7/11/2000
Location : Green Bay, WI

Shape : Light Satilite looking dot that would "streak" every minute or so.

06-23-2000 Last night I was out having a smoke watching the SE sky and 
noticed a light in the corner of my eye. At first I thought it was just a 
satillite but it blinked in and out - almost a three or four second pulse. 
When it was not "pulsed" or lit up, it was really hard to see. then my wife 
noticed a second one. Normally I would just shrug this sighting off as 
"explainable" until they would "flash" or "streak" What I'm saying is, they 
kept on their path heading NW (went through Big Dipper - eventually) and 
as they traveled they would throw off this very bright "Streak" about 10 
times longer than they were. It was if they were turning on massive bright 
"headlights". Pretty neat.

((NUFORC Note: This incident occurred approximately 5 minutes after an 
airline pilot on the east coast reported having an anomalous, apparently 
non-aerodynamic, object streak past his aircraft, within approximately 50 
vertical feet of his right wing. PD))

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Occurred : 6/25/2000 21:00 (Entered as : 06/25/00 21:00)
Reported : 6/26/2000 20:10
Posted : 7/11/2000
Location : Little Chute - Appleton, WI

Shape : Fireball My sister and I saw this unusual fireball in the sky.

My sister and i were driving to the mall when going on to Highway 41 i 
noticed something oval in the sky.... it looked like a fire ball in the sky. But 
as we both looked at it closer we could see an oval shape on the top of it 
and sometimes we could see an oval shape on the bottom of it also. There 
was a black dot in the front of the fireball. It was below the clouds. 
travelling up towards the right. as we were going south on highway 41 
between N and Wisconsin Ave. I'm not sure what it was and it would make 
my sister feel better if she found out what it was.

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Occurred : 6/29/2000 21:00 (Entered as : 6/29/00 21:00)
Reported: 6/30/2000 00:37
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Shape: Sphere
Duration:4 seconds
Light over minneapolis

I was driving home from work at 9p.m. I peripherly saw a light so I looked up and 
what I saw was a round light about a mile away similar to a shooting star that had 
entered earths atmosphere, but it did not break up, it stayed the same. It went down 
to the ground very fast. I estimate the altitude at about 5000 feet above ground level. 
It must have been going over a thousand miles per hour. I thought maybe it was a 
firework, being the july fourth weekend. However, I did not see any fireworks in the 
area before or after the sighting. To me, this was a ufo. It is possible that this is 
explainable, and not out of this world, but it traveled faster than anything manmade 
(airplane, etc.)

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Occurred : 6/30/2000 22:40 (Entered as : 6/30/00 10:40pm)
Reported: 7/1/2000 00:56
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:5 minutes
Bright White light in Orbit. suddenly dimmed in brightness. flew southwest to 
northeast, Witnessed By 2 people.

Object appeared to be in orbit(possibly a satellite, but was moving very quickly) 
flying from Southwest to Northeast. When I first sighted this object it was glowing 
bright white, Then suddenly change to a dim color.. could of been a satellite, but 
when i kept my eyes on the object i could see a dim outline around it of something 
bigger that wasnt lit.. got on the net right after i saw this , writing this 10 minutes 
after sighting... thank you.

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July, 2000 Reports

HOVERING UFO SPOTTED IN DAIRYLAND, WISCONSIN

On Monday, July 3, 2000, at 10 p.m., eyewitness Edward P. and a small
group of friends were camped out in a wooded area near the Ratigan Dam
in Dairyland, Wisconsin (population 40) when they spotted a UFO
hovering nearby. "Two of the friends went for a walk a little after
dark, only to come back and get me. They brought me a very short
distance from our (camp) site and asked me what I saw." 

"About a half-mile away, maybe further, we saw two levels of lights,
one at the lower portion of the distant tree line, the other closer to
the top of the trees. It didn't look like fog, and we could barely
make out the trees near the lighted areas. Shortly after that, we
walked back to our site." 

"While talking about the lights" with their other friends, Edward
added, "I noticed a very distant light in the sky, moving very
quickly. I called to my friends to check this out, as there were no
blinking lights like an airplane would make. We watched the circle of
light move from east to west very fast, and then it stopped for just a
split-second, and then sped away, either out of the atmosphere or just
out of our general space." 

Dairyland, Wis. is just east of the Minnesota state line and is
located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) due south of the twin ports of
Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. (Many thanks to Jim Aho of
the W-Files for this report.) (Editor's Note: Northwestern Wisconsin
has long been a UFO hotspot here in the USA.) 

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MORE UFOs SIGHTED OVER WISCONSIN

      On Monday, July 10, 2000, at 7 p.m., two men
"were having a break outside the factory where we work"
in Tomah, Wisconsin (population 7,570) when "we both
saw a cigar-shaped object to the north and (another) one
to the south.  They were silver in color, and this was at
7 p.m. (Still daylight.  Sunset in Wisconsin that day was
around 9 p.m.--J.T.)  Both were traveling slowly--too slow
to be a plane.  They were too low to be a commercial jet.
After about a minute and a half of watching, they speeded up
to a terrific speed and disappeared.  We are sure this
object wasn't any type of man-made aircraft.  It was a
real strange event we witnessed."
      Tomah is on Wisconsin Highway 16 about 170 miles
(272 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee.
      On Sunday, June 25, 2000, two girls were driving on
Highway 41 in Little Chute, Wis., a suburb of Appleton,
when they saw something strange in the sky.
      "My sister and I saw this unusual fireball in the sky,"
one of the witnesses reported, "We were driving to the mall
and, when going on to Highway 41, I noticed something
oval in the sky.  It looked like a fireball in the sky.  But, as
we both looked at it closer, we could see an oval shape on
the top of it and sometimes we could seen an oval shape
on the bottom of it, also.  There was a black dot in front of
the fireball.  It was below the clouds, traveling up towards
the right, as we were going south on Highway 41  I'm not
sure what it was, and it would make my sister feel better
if she could find out what it was."  (Many thanks to Peter
Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center for these
reports.)

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Sighting Date/Time: July 24th approx. 10 PM
Sighting Location: just north of minneapolis on interstate 35

Sighting Description: Me and my father were driving north from minneapolis 
to duluth when i noticed a bright light just above the treetops on the east 
side of the interstate.he noticed it too but we both thought it was a helicopter 
hovering.as we got next to it the bright light was gone but i got a good side 
view of it. it was triangular with a blue light in front and white lights on the back 
two corners.my father didn't see the side view because of the traffic and he 
was concentrating on his driving.i was just curious to know what it was or if 
anyone else had reported seeing it.i don't think it was a helicopter because 
the lights on it were not flashing and i got to see it up close.iv'e seen many 
helicopters but never one that looked like this.

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Aug., 2000 Reports

Occurred : 8/5/2000 23:55 (Entered as : 08/05/00 23:55)
Reported: 8/27/2000 19:02
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: LeSueur, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:4.5 to 5 minutes
Saw 3 satellite-like objects move from Big Dipper to SSE part of sky in varying 
formation over about 5 minutes.

Sighting Date/Time: August 5, 2000, maybe 11:45-12:10PM Sighting Location: 
Sighting occurred while on the beach of the Minnesota river, approx 3 miles 
E-NE of Le Sueur, MN Sighting Description: We were fishing on the bank of the 
Minnesota River. We had all been watching for satellites and had even had 2 in 
perpendicular orbits pass real close to one another (2" at arms-length I'd estimate) 
and there was about 5 of us seeing it. We all thought that was cool. August also 
sees an increase in meteoric activity, which we all took in. Skies were mostly clear, 
humid, 70F, 1/2? moon in the West. I had been left on the shore to watch the 
catfish lines while my friends went back to town to get another 4X4 truck. I sat, 
watching satellites go by, and the frequent falling stars, when I looked North to the 
lowest part of the spoon in the Big Dipper constellation. I watched a light become 
bright as it moved in what would become a S-SE direction. I assumed, that the 
increase in light intensity was due to the sun's position below the horizon, and the 
satellite entering the light from the long-set Sun. (We know that as satellites move 
into the Earth's shadow, the light fades and they disappear. And I grew up in the 
country with my dad's 8" reflector Celestron with the Earth-clock tripod, so I know 
my way around the stars well enough to hold the evening's conversation.) Anyway, 
as I watched the "satellite" move, I noticed that it was a slower speed than any of 
the (at least 6) satellites I had observed in that evening, and suddenly I saw another 
appear behind it, maybe 1/2" at arms-length at perhaps 4 o'clock as looking at a 
clock. I thought that this was a treat, since seeing two satellites in such proximity is 
rare, (if not totally regulated "illegal" by some NASA trajectory-assignment 
committee). From the time I saw the first, until the second appeared, was possibly 
20 seconds. At this point, they may have been 3/4 of the distance through an arc 
between the horizon and a vertical axis going up through my body. As soon as I 
saw the second, I had two reference points moving in the sky, and was immediately 
aware that the speed of one was erratic at best. Using the stars in the background, 
I was then able to verify that they traveled less a trajectory, but rather in a meandering 
direction, neither holding a constant speed at this point. The second never passed 
the first. Then, as they were at a point I would describe as 11 O'clock, I saw the third.
I felt a rush of disappointment that everyone had left. I watched the three lights, and 
I hate to try and judge their altitude, but I would put them as "orbit". If you were to hold 
a 30/60/90 triangle up in the air, with the right-angle facing to your right, that is a good 
representation of the "formation" they tried to hold, and the hypotenuse of the triangle 
would be no larger than an inch at arms-length. They all seemed to "inch-worm" 
across the sky, all wavering slightly in direction, still traveling at what must have 
been an ungodly speed, with conservative accelerations to what seemed to be trying 
to preserve the formation. At this point, I had been watching them for probably 2 
minutes, had taken off my glasses, looked away, shook my head, opened a 7Up, 
looked back and they were all still there. I shouted at them, waved, screamed at 
them that their formation looked shitty, and began to realize that the third, the dimmest 
of the three could not keep control. The second seemed to act as a "chase-plane", 
like the Tigers that follow the Shuttle's entry. Sometimes, the second would slow to 
alongside the third, making equilateral triangle, sometimes drop behind, but not for 
long. It seemed intent on trying to hold its own position in the formation. I hate to say 
it, but it seemed like none of them were keeping control. I watched them for what I 
would estimate as 4.5-5 minutes, as they crossed the arc of the sky. It actually 
became boring, as I wanted to see some of those eye-blinking accelerations I have 
heard of. But they continued to stumble their way across the sky at from my vantage 
seemed a languid, haphazardly jaunt. They faded out of light in the S-SE, as would 
a satellite re-entering the Earth's shadow. That's one of the reasons I say their altitude 
was orbit-level.

***

MINNESOTA LIGHTS

MINNESOTA RIVER - MUFON's William I. McNeff reports 
that a witness observed lights while night fishing on August 5, 2000,
at 11:45 to 12:10 PM three miles east of Le Sueur.  The witness says,
"I was watching the catfish lines and the frequent falling stars, when
I looked north to the lowest part of the spoon in the Big Dipper
constellation.  I watched a light become bright as it moved in what
would become a southerly direction.  I assumed, that the increase in
light intensity was due to the sun's reflection on a satellite.  I
noticed that it was a slower speed than any of the other six
satellites I had observed earlier that evening.  I saw another light
appear behind it that was maybe 1/2" at arm's-length.  From the time I
saw the first, until the second appeared, was 20 seconds. The speed of
one was erratic at best. Using the stars in the background, I was able
to verify that they traveled less a trajectory, but rather in a
meandering direction, neither holding a constant speed.  The second
never passed the first. Then, as they were at a point I would describe
as 11 O'clock, I saw the third.  They seemed to "inch-worm" across the
sky, all wavering slightly in direction, in a loose formation.  The
second seemed to act as a "chase-plane", like the Tigers that follow
the Shuttle's entry.  Sometimes, the second would slow to alongside
the third, making equilateral triangle, sometimes drop behind, but not
for long.  It seemed intent on trying to hold its own position in the
formation.  I watched them for 5 minutes, as they crossed the arc of
the sky.  They faded out of light in the S-SE, as would a satellite
re-entering the Earth's shadow. That's one of the reasons I say their
altitude was orbit-level. Thanks to Jeffrey Pekarna. Le Sueur and
MUFON's William I. McNeff

***

Occurred : 8/8/2000 22:25 (Entered as : 08/08/00 22:25)
Reported: 8/9/2000 08:53
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Shorewood, MN
Shape: Sphere
Duration:5 minutes
Orange Orb seen flying around town in Minnesota.

An orange orb flew out of the treen line at about 10:25pm approximately 200 yards 
east of my house, I assume out of the nearby park. It flew south just above the 
treeline for about a minute. Then the orb stopped dimmed a little and then seemed 
to be flashing brigther than it was before. The orb then took the same path back for 
about half the way, stopped, slowly dimmed and went below the treeline at 
approximately 10:30pm.

***

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report 
Occurred : 8/20/2000 21:00 (Entered as : 08/20/2000 21:00)
Reported: 5/17/2004 7:46:11 PM 19:46
Posted: 6/4/2004
Location: White Bear Lake, MN
Shape: Unknown
Duration:10 minutes 
2 flashing lights in the sky, circle counter clockwise one on right goes behind moon and they 
moved away from each other
Two "crafts" that looked like bright white stars stood out on the left side of the crescent moon. 
The lights flashed brightly every few seconds, bright as two headlights on an approaching 
car. This is the best way I can describe them. They were really bright, but not bright enough 
to light up the sky. They began to circle each other, very slowly in a clockwise direction. 
The lights crept away from each other across the horizon. The light that was moving to the 
right made me think. The shadow on the moon is cast by the earth. The flashing light did not 
show up on the shadow. That light must have traveled behind the moon. I'm not sure the 
exact date of this experience but my mom and i were putting the sprinklers away for the 
night so i assume it was late august or more towards early spring perhaps april or may. 
Everyone i talked to about this said they had never heard of anything like it. We should've 
reported it as soon as it happened, but we didn't and i've been trying to figure out what the 
lights could've been ever since. I'm curious if anyone else has ever seen ne thing like this.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)) 

****

Occurred : 8/21/2000 01:38 (Entered as : 8-21-2000 01:38a.m)
 Reported : 10/4/2000 07:08
 Posted : 12/2/2000
 Location : Blaine, MN
 Shape : Changing
 4 shapeshifting craft checks out humans...

 my girlfriend and i were driving around in the wooded area of were we live...we were 
on our way to a friends house when she noticed  the u.f.o.to the left of the car about 
2 miles away from us...we stopped the car and got out...i grabbed my video camera 
and started filming...they were 4 craft in a dimamond shape flight pattern...there was 
no definate shape...they appeared to change shape kind of like a liquid metal...they 
stayed in place for about 45 seconds when they started to move toward us...like they 
knew we were there...we quickly got in the car and started to drive...they moved right 
over us and then the car just stopped...then all we could see was a yellowish red light...
i thought this stuff only happened in the movies....i'd say this went on for 2 minutes...
we were freaked out...when suddenly the light was gone...i looked out the car window 
to see the craft disapear into the sky...  ((NUFORC Note: We have requested a report 
from the second witness, and illustrations from both of them. We will post them when 
the arrive. PD))

***

Occurred : 8/22/2000 21:45 (Entered as : 08/22/00 21:45)
Reported: 8/23/2000 12:22
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Wabasha, MN
Shape: Flash
Duration:15 sec
The rate of speed and no sound

I just happen to step out last night to see what the weather was like, so as if we 
should open up the house. I know it was over cast and I could hear a commercial 
air liner in the distance. As I looked up I saw a bright flash, similar to a strobe light 
on an aircraft , what caught my attention , was the time and distance between 
flashes. No plane I've ever seen could travel that fast between flashes, and what 
was even more strange, there was no sound, absouletly none. Like I said there 
was a distant sound of a jet , and that was still heard after this object was long gone. 
It moved from the southeast toward the northwest, like from Winona MN to 
Minneapolis, MN. The total time I observed this object, couldn't have been morre
 than 15 secs. I know for sure I saw 3 flashes, then due to my location where I was 
standing, with trees and the house, buy the time I changed my stand for another 
view, it was gone. It was overcast, and I'm not sure what the ceiling was, but it's 
my guess it had to be less then 3000' and it definitely was under the overcast.

***

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
Occurred : 8/23/2000 18:30 (Entered as : 08/23/2000 18:30)
Reported: 10/10/2004 
Posted: 10/27/2004
Location: Duluth, MN
Shape: Formation
Duration:5 min.
Unexplained lights over Lake Superior

I was sitting waiting for a friend in front of my window which has an
excellent expansive view of Lake Superior and the Duluth harbor. I
noticed clusters of four bright lights in seven groupings flying from
northwest to southeast over the lake and harbor. At first I thought they
may be seagulls reflecting the light from the setting sun off of their
bodies or wings but the lights stayed constant and never varied in
distance or intensity from one to the other. I further believe I would
not have been able to see them at all if the light had not been just right.
((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does 
not indicate that fact. PD))

***

Occurred : 8/31/2000 20:43 (Entered as : 08/31/00 20:43)
Reported: 8/31/2000 19:05
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Columbia Heights, MN
Shape: Other
Duration:6 seconds
It was reddish and had rays comming out of it like when you look at the sun.
When me and my friends were playing football we took a brake and when i looked 
up I saw an odd reddish object that had rays comming around it like when u look 
at the sun it was pretty dark and that's why it sorta stuck out to me once i realized 
wat i saw i told ran to my computer and reported it.

***



Sept., 2000 Reports

Occurred : 9/1/2000 22:00 (Entered as : 9/00 22:00)
Reported: 10/8/2002
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Pipestone (20-30 miles north of), MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 5-10 minutes
silent low flying "cloaked" Triangle in Minnesota/South Dakota
It was about 10pm and we were driving south of an area in MN known as Buffalo Ridge 
at about this time I looked out my window of the car I was in the seat behind the driver 
but anyway as i looked out the window i saw a craft maybe no more than about 100-200 
feet off the ground and was in the shape of an equallatteral triangle with a light on every 
point as it passed over us the driver stopped the car the kid sitting next to me stayed in 
the car and me and my dad got out to look at it as it came over us we noticed that there 
was no sound coming from it no sound of a jet or propeller or anything and one of the 
straight sides of the triangle was the leading edge, the craft moved very slowly from the 
NE to the SW in the matter of about 20-25 minutes after it passed over us we could also 
see through it like it was "cloaked" I could see stars through the perimeter inside of the 
triangle thats why i think it was cloaked but the stars looked like they were distorted from 
heat kind of like when u look at something through the heat of a grill but after it passed 
we got in the car and continued to atch it fly in the same direction until we couldnt see 
it anymore which was until we made it to just outside of Souix Falls, South Dakota more 
than 70 miles from where we had spotted it and by that time the craft was well into 
S. Dakota

***

Occurred : 9/10/2000 21:10 (Entered as : 09/10/2000 21:10)
Reported: 9/10/2000 20:06
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Hermantown, MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 minutes
my feiance and I were driving home from a weekend out of town. We were driving 
south on hwy 53 just north of hermantown minnesota..When we noticed a rather 
low flying aircraft with a whole aray of lights coming from it.....Not like a normal jet 
with lights flashing and headlights blaring forwards. The lights on this craft were 
emanating from it....they were very bright and there where many of them....At first 
we could just see a side profile and it was very difficult to make out a shape...as it 
got closer it came along side of the freeway with us and you could make out a 
shape that being a trianglular and very large with 9 lights on the bottom..six yellow,
three green, and one red at the very rear....The aircraft was about 100 feet above 
our heads and made no noise what so ever.......

***

Occurred : 9/20/2000 22:57 (Entered as : 09/20/00 22:57)
Reported: 9/20/2000 22:08
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Marshall, MN
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 SECONDS
A flattened out "V", made up of many pinpoints of light glided silently, smoothly, 
but quickly over-head

I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I first thought it was the "V" formation 
of a flock of birds. I cupped my ear to listen, but it made absolutely no sound. It 
glided smoothly but quickly from the North towards a South-southeasterly direction. 
It spanned the portion of sky from Hercules to Capricornus (where I lost it behind 
the trees) in about 5 seconds. It was shaped like a flattened out "V". At arms length 
it was about 3" across and about 1" long. It's shape was made up of many pinpoints 
of white lights, not brilliant, about as bright as the average star. It was a perfectly 
clear night, the moon had not risen yet. I was outside just gazing at how spectacular 
the milky way looked when I saw it. My background: 37 year old male, I own a 
hardware store, I have a college degree in marketing and management, I am an 
avid starwatcher, I own a telescope, I do not believe in extraterrestrial life but I am 
miffed by what I just saw.

***

Occurred : 9/21/2000 04:00 (Entered as : 09/21/00 04:00)
Reported: 9/25/2000 08:15
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Dent, MN
Shape: Light
Duration:2 1/2 hours
Very bright light plus red and green lights in southeastern sky - seen for 2 1/2 
hours, then moved off south.

A BRIGHT light, such as landing lights on a commerical jet approaching at a distance 
of several miles, plus red and green flashing lights. Stayed in one location for quite a 
time, and then moved higher and lower a bit (jerking movements up, down and to the 
south, and then over about 2 hours gradually moved to the southwest and higher and 
eventually it became nearer, and then dawn came and we could no longer view it. 
There is no commerical airport within over 75 miles of here - and we NEVER see any 
landing lights here -- also, we have never seen landing lights with the interposed 
flashing red and green lights.
((NUFORC Note: Report seems to us to be reminiscent of a "twinkling" star. PD))

***

Occurred : 9/23/2000 20:25 (Entered as : 09/23/00 20:25)
 Reported : 9/23/2000 18:38
 Posted : 12/2/2000
 Location : Rosemount, MN
 Shape : Triangle
 A craft that blew are minds

 The craft had 3 white lights no tail and a red flashing light. The 2 white lights after 
these lights on the same level as these lights was the red light. The other white light 
was at the the VERY front of the plane. We saw no "bubble" where a person would sit. 
It made a VERY tight turn a turnisappered. We heard noise and the plane was at 
about 5,000 ft. TO LOW for this area. The FAA does not allow planes that low in this 
area. It had the shape of a stealh BUT WAS very different as we heard a lot of noise.

*****

MINNESOTA RED, GREEN AND WHITE STAR

MINNEAPOLIS -- Zapp Jones reports, "This past Sunday, September 24, 2000, my 
dad stepped outside around 8:20 PM and noticed an unusual light in the north 
20 degrees off the horizon, just to it's left was the Big Dipper."  He called 
us out to watch.  With the naked eye and 10 X 25 binoculars we watched as it 
appeared to shift up and down and left and right.  It definitely rotated 
inconsistently the colors of white, green and red.  We are seeing this from 
the country side an hour north of Minneapolis.  As time elapsed and the earth 
rotated the object remained the same distance from the Big Dipper and moved 
higher off the horizon and to the northeast.  An hour and a half later others 
were called, and they saw it too.  To them it also appeared to shift quickly 
in different directions.  Monday night was clear and the object was back in 
the exact same place at 8:00 PM and rotated to the NE over the next couple of 
hours, however the quick movements were not present.  On Tuesday night it 
appeared again and my son mentioned it to his professor during their evening 
astronomy class.  They spotted it with naked eyes and then brought out the 
telescope and could clearly see the inconsistent change of colors, red, green 
and white.  Again the object did not appear to make any movement, as it did 
on Sunday.  My sons professor was unable to explain what it was but was 
curious and was looking into it.  He ruled out any type of satellite that he 
was aware of and knew of no planet that would emit a continuous rotation of 
color or move in the description we gave him of Sundays viewing.  Tonight 
when we checked we could not see the object.  Thanks to  Z Peterson, 
zap157@hotmail.com

***

Date:  9-24-00
Time:  9:00
Sighting City:  West Saint Paul
Sighting State:  mn
Number of Craft:  1
Witnesses:  2
Shape:  Disk
Aura:  Yes
Electrical:  Yes
Description:
Well me and my dad were coming back from our lake.  Then 
my dad said "look up there" and when I looked up there was 
a space ship! Well it in space it was not a star because 
it was much much brighter and it looked like a saucer. Then 
as we were looking at it in a blink of a eye it was gone!!!

****

Occurred : 9/26/2000 13:00 (Entered as : 9-26-2000 01:00pm)
Reported: 9/26/2000 11:09
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Jordan, MN
Shape: Cigar
Duration:2 minutes
It was cigar shaped with a fin shaped tail it was very quiet it was silver and then 
changed to blue

***



Oct., 2000 Reports

Occurred : 10/4/2000 22:45 (Entered as : 10/04/00 22:45)
 Reported : 2/26/2001 08:52
 Posted : 3/6/2001
 Location : New Brighton, MN
 Shape : Disk
 Flying Saucers Over Lake in St. Paul!

 I was looking up to observe the full moon that was coming over the horizon, and 
there they were, right over the lake. 5 flying saucers hovering over Long Lake. They 
made white streaks in in the atmoshpere as they slowly moved twords me. Then all 
of the sudden, a very large flash occured, and they rocketed straight twords the 
heavens. Each spacecraft was around 10 feet in diameter. They hoverd out on the 
lake for almost ten minuets before leaving. My parents and friends did not belive me 
when I told them. They craft were mysteriously silent.

*****

Occurred : 10/9/2000 23:35 (Entered as : 10/9/00 11:35pm)
 Reported : 4/15/2001 23:13
 Posted : 4/28/2001
 Location : Minnetonka, MN
 Shape : Changing
 I have a mini web site attached with my signature that is 3 pages, containing 30 
images of UFO"s videtaped by myself, with a sony 8m/m.
 As you'll see if my mini web site with 30 images I froze onto my webtv via my 
VCR makes it. The images each speak for themselves, except for the last image. 
It shows something quite different on "Night Shot" IR light, that spans IR light for 
about 10 feet, that is of course invisable to the human eye. Check out the last IR 
image because it says alot, and this image preceeded a beautiful low flying light 
that unknown to me at the time and just noticed was captured on my 8m/m Sony 
camcorder. I have not yet put this sequence of video freeze images on my tiny site. 
Of course, If there was a particular picture that you were curious about, ie: if it was 
faked or hoaxed etc. and I totally understand, and have no problem with loaning 
out some of the 8m/m original film cassettes if you were interested to study. I have 
so much crazy stuff in my video archive. Thankyou in advance for checking it out.
 ((NUFORC Note: We have visited the site and viewed the photos posted there. 
The objects appear to be anomalous and unidentifiable to us. However, we do not 
have any specific reason to believe that they definitely are bona fide UFO's. One 
photo has the appearance of being that of a white dove or pigeon with its wings 
extended and tail spread, as if it could be landing, but that is only an impression. 
We are not aware of other dramatic reports from this area for this date. PD))

***

Sighting Date:  October 9, 2000, approx. 5:52 pm CST
Sighting location: St. Paul, MN

Yesterday, October 9, 2000:  I was outside taking a smoke break.  I was in 
the backyard (south side) and happened to look up over the shed there.  I 
saw, at high altitude, what appeared to be a "sport model".  You know what 
I'm saying, right?  Very much like the ones captured on video SO many times 
in Mexco City.  I thought I was seeing things; a spot on my glasses, a kid's 
baloon, unidentified plane at a distance, stroke, hallucination...take your 
pick.  Then I thought, "No, I should be able to see it move more than that 
and see the top and bottom defined more clearly.  That did it.  The object 
made a few quick, hard g turns, rolled part way a couple of times so I could 
see the dull bottom and shiny top surfaces glinting in the sun, accelerated 
quickly and then disappeared.  POOF, gone.

The object was east of my position at a high altitude.  It was moving slowly 
northward (approx.) when I first saw it.  In it's eratic flight behavior, it 
seemed to double-back hard on it's position and double-back again with quick 
acceleration.  The rocking or rolling exhibited was during these maneuvers.  
As for the disappearance, I stayed watching for a few extra seconds to see 
if I had just lost it somehow or if it would return.  The skies were clear, 
so there is no way it could have been lost there.  I looked at my watch, it 
was approx. 5:52 pm.  I ALWAYS doubt how accurate my watch is.

I waited another few minutes, scanning the skies.  A comercial plane flew 
over, possibly a 727(?).  It was high enough to leave short contrails.  The 
object I saw was about one-third the size (relatively) of the plane.  The 
plane was much closer.  The object in question was ABOUT 45 degrees off the 
horizon.  The plane was almost overhead.  So, there is NO doubt that the 
plane was closer.  I didn't think to call upon the knowledge gained in my 
college astronomy classes at the time, but, I would guesstimate the size at 
about one-half of one degree at distance.

I want to make it painfully clear that I DO NOT want investigation.  I have 
had other sightings and other experiences.  This is just another day for me.  
I will give you the fact that I am in the Hayden Heights neighborhood of St. 
Paul.  I am near the railroad tracks.  I can see all of the traffic coming 
and going from the airport. 

Thanks for your time.  The ONLY reason I wrote this is to tell you that they 
are HERE.  I have been to a couple of your meetings and it seems a distant 
subject to you.  It isn't.  It's right in your backyard.  It isn't someone 
else's issue to deal with in some other state or country.  They're right 
here staring you down.  I just felt you should be made aware as I have been 
made aware this time and others.

***

Occurred : 10/18/2000 19:00 (Entered as : 10/18/00 19:00)
Reported: 10/18/2000 19:49
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Broklyn Center, MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:
2 ships, each had 2 bright white lights & 1 weaker red light in between the 2. They 
were both stationary.
I witnessed 2 crafts. It was dark outside & we were driving on Hwy.101 going south 
towards Mpls. There were many highway lights along with malls & other buisnesses. 
In the sky, they were right next to each other & were absolutly stationary. Each ship 
had the exact same lights on & they were as follows; 2 very bright white lights & 1 
smaller red light, in between the 2 white lights. 6 of the passangers were senior 
citizens & 2 were adults in their early thirties.  ((NUFORC Note: Anonymous report. 
We have no way to contact witnesses to request further information or reports. PD))

***

Occurred : 10/23/2000 00:00 (Entered as : 10/23/00 00:00)
 Reported : 11/22/2000 07:19
 Posted : 12/2/2000
 Location : White Bear Lake, MN
 Shape : Triangle
 During a latenight party a group of twenty witnessed a peculiar gathering of a fleet 
of pyramid shaped craft at midnight.

 Last month I was staying up late with some friends. I was having a latenight party at 
my house. We were in the middle of watching a movie, and we had the speakers 
cranked up high, when I began to hear a loud whumping noise, like the noise of a 
helicoptor. Startled, I jumped up and asked my brother to turn off the television. 
Startled himself at my anxious expression, he did. I heard clearly then, as well as the 
nineteen others piled in my living room, the noise outside. We scrambled out as fast 
as we could to see a small triangular craft above my house (small in comparison to 
large ones I've read about). The craft was about the size of my house and in the 
shape of a triangular pyramid, but at that moment I could only see the bottom of it. 
I yelled at my brother to go get a camera (I had to yell because the noise soon 
became very loud) when the noise of the craft was accompanied by many more.
 We saw out of the sky a whole fleet of these craft come down by my house. There 
were probably twenty to twenty five ships in all. They stayed for a moment, got into 
some formation, and began to retreat back to the stars. I remember the noise that 
they made was deafening. There were no lights on the crafts until they got in 
formation. Then thin beams, like lasers, connected all the ships. They traveled off 
smoothly. We were so stunned we didn't tell anybody for weeks (who would believe 
us anyway?). I live in a rural area and what few neighbors I did have were either 
out of town and didn't see the ships or they were at my party. My parents were on 
a week-long getaway and they couldn't testify either. Much of the group that were 
there won't talk about it now or just plain deny that it happened. But I know it 
happened, and I'm afraid.  ((NUFORC Note: We do not know whether the witness 
means the morning, or midnight, of 23OC00. We will attempt to clarify this point. PD))

*****

Sighting Date/Time: Mon., 10/23/2000 / 4:24am - 6:05am CST
Sighting Location: Lakeville, MN (looking to the south)

On Monday morning, it would have been at 4:24 am,  I was woke 
up by the 'pitch' in my left ear. When I went back to bed I 
could see out of the window a very bright light, sort of 
oblong (meaning left to right, not up to down). It was in the 
South sky (the direction that my bedroom faces).  It was always 
on but it worked as a strobe kind of light.  It was not moving.   
I held out my arm in front of me.  It was 45 degrees from the 
ground, well above the tree tops.  When I put my thumb out I 
could barely cover up the main light, but I could still see 
the strobe around my thumb.  Almost like my thumb had its 
own glow about it.

As soon as I did this, the darn thing shot off straight East, 
or to my left, completely out of sight.  I stood there for a 
moment and thought I had been seeing things.  Then I laid 
down in bed, and closed my eyes for a moment. Then I had this 
weird feeling that there was something there.  When I opened 
my eyes it was back, almost in the same spot, only this time 
a little more to the West.  

Also, this time when I put my thumb out it was not completely 
covering it up.  So it had moved in closer when it returned.  
It was there until 6:05am.  That is what shocked me.  It 
never really moved in that time either.  

Oh yes, the strobe was mostly a white light, but sometimes it 
sorta looked like there was a blue hue to it.  Nothing you 
would notice at just a glance.  I use the word strobe lightly 
also, almost like a pulse.

***



Nov., 2000 Reports

LITTLE FALLS, MN
11/14/00
UFO Roundup Vol 5 #47
http:/ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_47.shtml%235

***

Occurred : 11/16/2000 23:54 (Entered as : 11/16/00 23:54)
 Reported : 11/16/2000 07:52
 Posted : 12/2/2000
 Location : Vining, MN
 Shape : Oval
 It was a green oval object that just sat in the water I'm not sure if it was on top of the 
water or just sitting under the lake of east battle lake.
 ((NUFORC Note: Only one report of event. PD))

*****

MIDWEST UFO FLAP SPILLS INTO MINNESOTA

On Tuesday, November 21, 2000, at 5:30 p.m., Tim D. saw a UFO 
flying from south to north in Chatfield, Minnesota (population 
900), a town on Highway 62 about 30 miles (48 kilometers) 
southeast of Rochester, Minn. 

"It was a very large square-shaped, sharp 'craft' with two red 
lights and two white lights," he reported, " "One on each side, 
alternating in red, white, red, white, in this sequence." 
"It flew from behind my car and around us as we sat on a ridge 
viewing the stars. We could not hear any sound, and could not 
see any definition towards the center of the object." 
"It appeared VERY LARGE and SQUARE, and it was approximately 500 
feet (165 meters) off the ground. The temperature that evening 
was about, say, 15 to 20 degrees (Fahrenheit). We had it in 
sight for nearly one minute." (Email Form Report) 

***

Occurred : 11/28/2000 21:30 (Entered as : 11/28/00 21;30)
Reported: 11/28/2000 08:19
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Edina, MN
Shape: Circle
Duration:3 minutes
round, bright white light that changed into orange.
I was on my porch, which faces west and I saw a really bright star looking object in 
the distance, however it was much brighter than any star. It rapidly came closer 
and I could see that it was round with many thin pieces sticking out of the object. 
Twice it stopped and changed directions, and then continued on the orginal path. 
When it was almost directly overhead, it began to change into an orange color and 
then back to the white. When it changed color it did so gradually, and started in the 
center, and then worked it's way to the thin pieces that were attached to the circle. 
The thin pieces then began to flash orange and white. Even though it was very 
close, it was silent.

***


Dec., 2000 Reports

Time:  7:40pm Central Standard Time
Date:  12/5/2000
Location:  South bound, closest intersection is 85th Ave. 
           North & Noble, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Object description:
 -3 medium yellow lights forming a triangular shape
 -size approximately 2/3 of a dollar bill at arms length
 -length approximately 2/3 longer than width
 -observed outside of drivers side window at approximate 10 
  o'clock position, stopped my vehicle and observed object moving  
  to the North East for approximately 60 seconds.
 -object appeared large and close to the ground
 -no sound was heard
 -no blinking lights indicating an airplane
 -lights were somewhat dim compared to other aircraft
Witnesses:  myself and 11 year old daughter.
Event:  Turned south on  Noble from 85th Ave North at 7:40pm.  
I, the driver, noticed a reflection on the windshield and my 
eyeglasses, at the same time my daughter excitedly stated 
"what is that in the sky?"  As I looked up through the windshield 
the lights had moved to my left hand (drivers side window-top).  
I quickly decided that this was an unusual observation and
continued to watch the three lighted object as I pulled the vehicle 
to side of the road bouncing up on the curb.
     The object was larger than a passenger airplane but smaller 
than a commercial airliner, difficult to estimate size in the 
dark.  The object appeared to be moving at a very slow speed for 
its size to the North West. My daughter and I observed this object 
for approximately one minute.  The object did not appear to be 
raising in altitude, rather, it stayed on the same plane moving 
in a straight line.  At one point, approximately, 8 o'clock
position, it appeared to have dull gray color to it's body as 
it moved away from us.  I do not remember if the object was 
reflecting off of a cloud above it, but the shape and color was 
observable for 3-5 seconds.
     I have always been open minded and felt compelled to contact 
you as this was not a normal everyday observation.  This was quite 
unusual, I would not rule out a  military stealth aircraft, but 
this was in a very populated area, very low to  the ground, and 
very visible, if only for a minute.

***

Minnesota Sighting

On Sunday, December 10, 2000, at 5:20 p.m., UFO Roundup editor 
Joseph Trainor spotted a dark hovering delta-shaped UFO in 
Duluth, Minnesota (population 85,000), a port city at the 
western end of Lake Superior, which is located approximately 156 
miles (249 kilometers) north of Minneapolis. 

"I had attended a meeting of the Lake Superior Writers at the 
DeWitt-Seitz building in Canal Park that afternoon," Trainor 
reported, "I took the Duluth Transit Authority (DTA) bus home 
and got off at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and West Seventh 
Street at 5:20 p.m. It was dark but there was still a glimmer of 
blue dusk at the summit of Spirit Mountain, on the western edge 
of the city. As O crossed Piedmont Avenue, I looked downhill to 
my left and saw that the full moon had just risen. It was about 
10 degrees above the eastern horizon, over Lake Superior and 
Park Point. It was very cold, about zero degrees Fahrenheit, and 
the sky was completely clear." 

"As I passed the Lakeside Ice Co. building, I saw what I thought 
was a Christmas decoration through the pine trees, an arch of 
multicolored lights. After walking about 100 feet (30 meters) 
west on West Seventh, I saw the object more clearly." 

"It was a black triangle, with its apex pointed upward at a one 
o'clock angle, and the 'base' at the bottom. The object was in 
mid-air, an estimated 35 degrees above the southwestern horizon. 
It was the size of my thumbnail at arm's length. The color was 
matte black, a shade darker than the surrounding night sky. The 
object had no discernible motion and hovered silently. There was 
no sound." 

"The sides of the triangle were slightly rounded, a bit concave, 
giving the object the look of a bulky arrowhead. Also there were 
three sets or arrays of four lights each on either side of the 
triangle. There were no lights at the bottom. Twelve lights in 
all on either side. In descending order, the lights in each 
array were red, green, gold and white." 

"I halted at the corner of West Seventh and 22nd Avenue West and 
observed the object for five minutes. It was hard to judge 
distance, but my guess is that the object was a few miles away, 
possibly over the Spirit Valley area in the West Duluth section 
of the city. I was alone on the street. There was intermittent 
traffic on Piedmont Avenue a block behind me. I walked on to my 
home, went inside and grabbed a small camera. I wasn't sure the 
object itself would show, but I knew the steady multicolored 
lights would. However, when I reached the front porch again, the 
object was gone." 

Trainor added that this is the third UFO he's seen in his life. 
The first was in Seekonk, Massachusetts in August 1963 and the 
second was near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in August 1995. "This 
is the first triangular UFO I've ever seen." 

***

Occurred : 12/18/2000 07:00 (Entered as : 12-18-00 07:00)
 Reported : 12/20/2000 12:37
 Posted : 12/20/2000
 Location : Loon Lake, MN
 Shape : Changing
 One Loony Lake you might want to fish!

 There were three extremely different shaped objects hoovering over the lake as 
we were ice fishing. They objects emitted a fluorecent blue haze. They didnt seem 
to move much but stayed fixed in the sky. It was as if they were observing us or 
something. They were there probably about 10 min. and with a blink of an eye they 
were gone!

***

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report 
Occurred : 12/23/2000 16:30 (Entered as : 12/23/2000 16:30)
Reported: 12/20/2003 3:58:47 AM 03:58
Posted: 1/17/2004
Location: Zumbrota, MN
Shape: Cigar
Duration:30 sec. 
Silver cigar shaped object travelling low, and at great speed on US 52 in SE Minnesota.
While driving in heavy traffic two days before Christmas and returning to Rochester, Mn. 
from Minneapolis, Mn. on US 52, I, ((name deleted)), and ((name deleted--Witness #2)) 
witnessed a craft travelling at unbelievable speed from W to E., across the highway as 52 
runs N. and S. It was quite low, and kept a steady speed. It was out of sight very quickly. 
There was no sound. It was silver and cigar shaped from a side view. I called 911 on my 
cell phone and it was eventually answered by the Minnesota State Troopers. The operator 
told me that he was inundated with calls about this craft. It was such an unsusual 
experience that ((Witness #2)) and I looked at each other with our mouths open. I have 
also worked with jet aircraft in the military for many years, and this was NOT a jet 
aircraft. It left something....a pulse-like wave not in it's wake, but in front of it. Apparently, 
many saw this event while driving, not just on 52, but on perpendicular and parallel roads 
as well. The speed and shape were something I'd not witnessed before. Coupled with it's 
lack of ANY noise, it was clearly something new, or something I'd never seen before. 
There are NO major airbases in the area. Not even an airport within 60 miles.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)) 

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