Circle over Sleepy Eye, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saw a tiny metallic object in the south sky at 6:35. It was very hard to see because it was just a speck in the sky. The only reason I even spotted it was it reflected sunlight off it. It stayed there in the sky for around 15 minutes until I could no longer see it. It wasn’t a plane because it wasn’t moving and had no vapor trail. I checked my Skyview app to see if it was a planet or the moon, and it wasn’t.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148529). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-25 → 2019-09-11