Light over Longville, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend and I where in a fishing boat on Leech Lake in central Minnesota at 8:40pm. It was a clear night, and I was commenting to my friend how clear you could see the stars. I looked straight up, and noticed what I though was a satellite, and told my friend to look up. It looked like a satellite that was traveling pretty fast to the South East. We both noticed that the object was traveling in a zip zag motion, then it stopped, and started going in the opposite direction, then switched back heading South East until it disappeared into the horizon. It moved like nothing we've ever seen before, and was way too high to be a drone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164909). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-10-05 → 2021-10-22
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