State Report
UFO Sightings in Minnesota
3,243 sightings on record from 1932 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
3,243
Share of US total
1.51%
Peak year
2012
273 reports
Top shape
Light
665 reports
Years active
91
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-29 | Woodbury | orb | A minute maybe 2 | Witnessed moving orange ball/orb moving and then disappeared |
| 2023-11-23 | Bemidji | light | 3 minutes | While in my backyard, I noticed moving white light in sky, which was clear with no clouds, and very dark out. This light... |
| 2023-11-15 | Mountain Iron | circle | Seems to be there all day | This has been present outside and emits a high pitched frequency. It seems to be able to evesdrop. |
| 2023-11-12 | Prior Lake | star | 1 min 30 sec | Long group of objects that looked like stars but in our atmosphere. Disappeared quickly and seen black object shooting... |
| 2023-11-09 | Eden Prairie | formation | 10 min minimum | They were in a circular formation. There might’ve been two clusters, but that’s because I was at two different places... |
| 2023-10-19 | Two Harbors | changing | 5 seconds | My daughter and I were walking our dog down our block around 10:20 p.m. |
| 2023-10-19 | Two Harbors | changing | 7 seconds | We saw an oval shaped object in the sky, no lights, more like a faint glow of light around it, then it became a triangle |
| 2023-10-17 | Not sure | formation | 2 minutes | Three series of 3 slightly yellow/ white,lights spaced wide apart that then became one bright light, then went back to... |
| 2023-10-14 | Saint Cloud | sphere | 10 mins or more | 3 of these were hovering and moving by my house. I recorded the object and it got extremely large in a split second and... |
| 2023-10-01 | Delano | disk | 16 minutes | It was a gray disk with a blue sideways glow in the middle in the shape of a ufo and it was blinking while flying... |
| 2023-09-19 | zumbrota | circle | 2 hours | Pulsating object changing colors red green white moving left right up and down |
| 2023-09-13 | Shoreview | formation | Several minutes | Hovering orbs over 694 and Lexington ave |
| 2023-09-12 | Pine city | formation | 10 to 15 seconds | Slow moving single star that left a stationary visibly connected string of bright objects. |
| 2023-08-30 | Chanhassen | triangle | About 2 minutes | I have a picture where you can clearly see the craft as well as what appears to be an interdimensional being below |
| 2023-08-17 | Rogers | rectangle | 2 minutes | Low flying, black cloud with a parallelogram inside. |
| 2023-08-13 | Frontenac State Park near Lake City | fireball | 2-3 seconds | Extremely bright blue light traveling slightly upwards before disappearing and leaving a trail in the sky. |
| 2023-08-12 | Saint Cloud | circle | 1 minute | Flying objects circling |
| 2023-08-04 | Albert Lea | orb | 1-2min. | Saw 5 bright white balls of light that just appeared didn't move just hovered and then were just gone somehow. |
| 2023-07-27 | Nisswa | triangle | 3 minutes | Six lighted, triangular structures along the horizon, evenly spaced along the south shore of the lake. Non-moving. |
| 2023-07-26 | Little Falls | triangle | 2 minutes | Saw 2 to 4 triangle craft with bright white lights on the angle tips |