Circle over Saint Cloud, MN
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The report, as filed
Red orblike lights moving across the nights 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 2012-04-25 → 2012-05-12
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October 14, 2023 · 6:05 AM · SPHERE
Saint Cloud, MN
I could see this object clearly in the sunrise- it seemed extremely close with an orb possibly around the light that seems to be circular in shape but not fixed. As I watched it in the sky- clouds would pass by and the object would almost disappear into a poof of smoke as it passed the cloud. Once the cloud would pass- it would go back to being the bright object in the sky! You could still see the floating mass when it seemed to camouflage itself as a cloud. Finally- right before the sun was going to come up- I went outside to see if the objects were still there. They seems to be even brighter! I began to film the brightest of the 3. As I was filming- the object got extremely large - probably 5 times the size with more detail on how the Object looked. A second later- the object went back to its original size. The shape shifting of the object took 2 seconds total to do this! I have been filming this object consistently for a month or so and it stays visible like an orb floating in the sky. It starts to rise at this point and fades out into the distance as it gets further away. I have lived in Saint Cloud all my life and recently started to see objects moving in the sky that didn’t seem like planes or any of our technology. I am usually pretty skeptical of “ufos or aliens” and I tend to go with the simplest most logical explanation. I’ve never reported alien sighting and I never really believed in aliens until these objects started appearing in the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
August 12, 2023 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Saint Cloud, MN
I was filming and noticed a bright object not blinking flying towards a stationary object of the same form. The object leaves the screen a bit because I lost sight of it and comes back quickly into the video and is flying back by the object it had originally flown by. No explanation or reason and I’ve never seen anything like it before. The second video is of the same object that night. As I was filming it around 230am as the object was stationary and if you look closely- you can see an object zoom by very quickly past the screen. Again- no explanations and when I was originally filming I didn’t even see the object pass by.
May 7, 2023 · 10:26 PM · SPHERE
Saint Cloud, MN
I pulled over to take a video of a bright red-orange light in the sky- a star was next to it & the light was so bright and red as if it were close to the same size. (Attached is the video, the light was so bright in the video it shows as white. Zooming in you can see the reddish flickering aura.) I got home and told my dad to come outside because it was sitting in the same spot hovering. It came from south-west to north-east. It went over the star Corona Borealis & ascended up before stopping and hovering around 5-10 minutes. We called our neighbor out and it appeared to dance and move around the star, rarely moving straight. Our neighbor’s wife & daughter came outside to see. It then started on a southern direction ascending up- went between stars Nekkar & Seginus of the constellation Boötes. Hovered between (Nekkar & Seginus) at least 5 min- During this we saw at least 2 tiny orbs crossing the sky, one went south & a minute later we saw one go north- from each side of constellation Boötes. The orb of light(?) went from the middle of the 2 stars (Nekkar & Seginus), north toward the end of Big Dipper’s handle. It then went east until it faded out of sight.
August 21, 2015 · 10:05 PM · OVAL
Saint Cloud, MN
We were coming back from a movie on Highway 23 heading toward the east side of St. Cloud where our home is, and we spotted a helicopter light. The helicopter was hovering and then turned its search light on, panning it up in the sky. The helicopter hovered in an area over the east side of St. Cloud, near highway 10 for roughly two to three minutes. We pulled over in a church parking lot to film the helicopter when the two of us spotted an orange oval object heading fast from south to north. It cleared the trees and I panned my camera over to film it. The helicopter did not seem interested in the object, and headed west. We lost track of the object in the clouds, as it headed north. We then got back onto highway 23 heading back west to St. Cloud to see where the helicopter was. By now it was on the far west side of town. We drove back to our home and as we were pulling up in the parking lot, another orange object appeared from the south, heading north just like the previous object. Both this and the previous object had flickers to them, and were moving fairly quick. Also, it should be of note we spotted what looked like a normal plane at high altitude shortly after the second sighting. It was heading northwest and had blinking lights as a traditional plane would. There has been a lot of smoke in the sky lately from fires, and the moon was out. Video was taken of both objects and the helicopter.
May 4, 2010 · 11:40 PM · OVAL
Saint Cloud, MN
the bright blue oval object flew straight for 5 seconds then instantly vanished
September 4, 2006 · 7:55 PM · TEARDROP
Saint Cloud, MN
Definetly not a typical aircraft, military or commercial jet of any kind