Flash over Cloquet, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Flashing white light and out if sight in less than 3 seconds
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 2012-03-14 → 2012-03-31
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June 23, 2020 · 1:50 AM · CIRCLE
Cloquet, MN
We went outside at 1:50am when I noticed to the SSW three points of light in a triangle pattern. The highest point in the triangle was flashing blue, red, and orange for about 2 minutes while the lower right and left objects remained solid white as if they were stars. It slowed and faded, when the one to the lower right and left of the triangle began to mimic the light pattern for another 2 minutes. The object on the right disappeared first and moved underneath the bottom left object and continued flashing. That object flashed for a minute and then disappeared. About a minute later, the upper middle light disappeared. The lower left light remained for an additional minute before disappearing. I am a 33 year old mother of two who works full-time. My son’s 33 year old stay at home father was also present at the time. I had asked him to tell me if I was crazy or if he was seeing what I was seeing. I am an avid stargazer that is very familiar with the differences in satellites, airplanes (commercial and military), stars, meteors, etc.
April 25, 2019 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cloquet, MN
I was at a lake close to my house, and I was showing a friend that new owners have the property and we now have access to it after 10 years. I turned the lights off on my truck so she could look at the stars. We were facing north with the lake to the east, I was looking in the north west direction and noticed a moving traveling west to east. As I watched it I began to notice it wasn’t very high up maybe 75-100 feet above the tree tops and no sound the light was a bright white and when it got close enough I could see 3 bright white and very slight yellow colored lights moving counter clockwise, and round shaped like search lights i told my friend watch this thing it’s not a helicopter, airplane, or drone it’s not making noise it was a distance of about 100-150 yards to the north and close enough to see it wasn’t normal after it traveled at slow but steady speed it shot directly straight up and gone total time from when I realized it wasn’t any kind of aircraft! we ever seen 3-5 minutes Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
January 21, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Cloquet, MN
The night of the blood moon, I was on the porch with binoculars looking at the details of the moon and the stars surrounding the moon. I decided to scan the sky to look at more stars since the sky was filled with so many bright stars. As I scanned with the binoculars from the left to right my vision was disturbed by something because I wasn’t seeing any stars. I thought I ended up looking to low into the trees. I dropped the binoculars to gain visual of the sky again but I wasn’t looking at the trees. The area in the sky I came to was obviously different to my naked eyes. No stars and the shade of the dark sky was a different shade of black. But there also seemed to be visual texture covering the area. All I’ve been able to describe it as is a piece of paper that’s been crumpled and then layed out flat again but now very wrinkly. It was so close and large it seemed like a wall. I couldn’t make out a definite shape. It looked like a puddle covered with a sheer wrinkled cloth. I had no idea what I was seeing so I looked through the binoculars. That’s when I was able to see the scattered lights within the form. No defined pattern. Lots of very small pin dot lights and about 10 large white lights that did not flicker like drone lights that I’m use to seeing in my area. I quickly went to the garage asking my friend to come look at something and grab the gun so he could look through the scope. We walked out the door and I pointed to the right back corner of the house for him to go too. Instead as I was looking at the sky the object was now at the other end of the house straight up and much smaller like it was higher in the sky. The object moved from one side of the house to the other and higher up in the 3 minutes it took me to get him outside. He immediately seen the cluster of lights. He didn’t notice the shape color or wrinkles until he looked in his scope. I knew with his logical thinking he would tell me what it was. His reaction scared me. He verified what I seen almost exactly without me telling him what I actually seen. Over a 5 hour period we took turns going outside to look at the object to try and make some logical sense of what we were observing. The object never moved. After about 5 hours it either got higher or further away to were we couldn’t see the lights anymore. I don’t know exactly how large it was but my first visual it was extremely large. Once it moved it was much smaller but I felt it was just so incredibly high in the sky it looked small. The lights were small an dim as well. We both had a feeling it was very large and that we may have only been seeing a small portion of it. I have seen this object every weekend since the blood moon except when it’s cloudy. I’ve tried to tell my self it’s just a cluster of stars. Do stars move large distances within minutes? Are stars in the middle of a dark colored form? And each time I see it it’s not always in the same spot. • I read a post of a sighting of two young girls and seen the pictures of the object seen. This is why I’m writing. The size. The description of the ripples. I can’t give a definite shape to match but I know what I have been seeing and I can’t find a logical explanation. And that scares me.
January 16, 2019 · 7:15 PM · CIRCLE
Cloquet, MN
I had seen three separate objects hovering and moving around quite a distance away, my power had gone out so I was bored and was looking at the stars, Then they vanished and my power returned.
March 1, 2017 · 8:21 PM · TRIANGLE
Cloquet, MN
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · DIAMOND
Cloquet, MN
My daughter and I were driving home from eating out and commented that that star in sky was really bright. I started watching it and would dim and then get bright and the disappear and reappear we watched it until we got home and got of car and watched. It kept doing it and then all of a sudden you could see a diamond shape. Also, we looked opposite of house a saw a object flashing blue and red moving slow. Also, the diamond shaped object once split into 2 pieces and back together. We are freaking out!