Fireball over Minneapolis, MN
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The report, as filed
bright light falling from sky
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2004-01-16 → 2004-02-02
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July 11, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Minneapolis, MN
Two green lights close together just hovering over downtown Minneapolis. Then they free fell down until they stopped again and just stayed stationary over the city. Then it tilted sideways as it sped across to a different building and then came to a silent halt. It then turned around and we could faintly see the green lights blinking like they were traveling away and then they disappeared again. Then they came back over a different building and came closer to ours and hovered above the building right across from where our window is and they just hovered for a while before taking off across to the other side of the city where we saw it hover for a min then just disappear. Last we saw an hour ago was the two green lights then coming on and tilting again as it took off out of the city and headed south of Minneapolis!
March 19, 2023 · 10:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Minneapolis, MN
Thought it was a chinook or C17 so large it looked like it wasn’t moving. Thought maybe it was drill weekend. Got to VA hospital took picture it went flat turned diagonal and disappeared (when we were driving by the base there were two military police squads one car one truck at least 5-6 police that seemed to be looking at it) We we’re pointed west in the VA parking lot looking north northwest
August 21, 2022 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Minneapolis, MN
We were tracking what we thought could be a satellite but it was moving to high and to fast to be an airplane. Suddenly and for about 5 seconds there was a second light moving in total tandem with the first light and then it disappeared. The first light kept moving quickly across the sky.
August 20, 2022 · 9:11 PM · CIRCLE
Minneapolis, MN
3 red lights, in a straight line, equal distance apart appeared in night sky, altitude appeared lower than planes (I live near the MSP airport) no blinking lights, no sound, no movement, from my vantage point appeared 3 to 4 inches in diameter, for 1 minute, 1st in line within 2 seconds went into the outer atmosphere, no acceleration, no noise, 1 second stop and appeared as a pin head size red dot, then disappeared. 2nd in line, same process then 3rd in line, same process. I went into house, got cell, went back outside, called brother, gave description of event when a 4th red light, same size, same position hovered in the same spot for about one minute, within 2 seconds, same process as previous 3, no acceleration, no noise.
August 4, 2022 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Minneapolis, MN
It was sometime between 11pm and midnight. Exact date not known, but somewhere between August 2 thru the 5th of 2022. I opened my front door, which faces west, and was placing my outgoing mail in the mailbox, when I looked across the street. There's a long commercial building across the street about 200+ feet away. The building, including the embankment, is about 3 stories high. The OUTLINE of an intensely bright red triangle, made out of light, traveled above the building from west to south. It was not directly above the building. I'm not sure how far away it was, but the building's a good reference as to how relatively low it was in the sky. It appeared to be approx. 20 feet above the building (from my point of view) and could've been one mile to several miles away in distance. Whatever this was, was "light" and was not a solid object. It was significantly bright in the sky, almost like a large Christmas ornament, but in the shape of an irregular triangle. It was only an outline. Its inner area looked dark, like the sky. I watched as it moved from west to south (about 5 - 7 seconds) and was absolutely amazed at its striking color. My view was then blocked by a series of trees. A week later (8/11) I phoned the Mpls./St. Paul airport and spoke with the Air Traffic Control tower. Inquired regarding the OUTLINE of a red triangle (made out of light) flying low in the sky and could this possibly be the tail of a large aircraft? They were not aware of anything fitting my description. Lights that light the tail are white, not red, and do not form a triangular outline. I'm the only person who saw this. Unfortunately, there's no witnesses.
January 26, 2022 · 1:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Minneapolis, MN
I'm not comfortable doing the spellcheck and proof rating when I'm only reporting this because it's what I's think is right there's something drastic happening right now and a lot of cities are happening so I'm reporting this so that it can be documented I'm not gonna do what you asked that's ridiculous