NUFORC Sighting 82812

Occurred: 2011-07-04 00:01 Local
Reported: 2011-07-30 14:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Update* from the 07-28-11 report of Triangle UFO seen over St. Paul, MN, July 4th, 2011.

I was watching fireworks at a casino with my date on Sunday night July 3, 2011 when she received a phone call that her brother and sister in-law would be stranded at the Greyhound bus station in St. Paul, MN because their ride was unable to come and backed-out. We agreed to get them at the bus terminal. They were due in at 00:10 hrs. from Chicago, and although we left Red Wing, MN, a little late, we were sure to get them by 00:20 hrs on the morning of the 4th.

While driving northbound on U.S. 52, we approached the city of Saint Paul. In the South Saint Paul area, I noticed orange globes above the sodium street lights (also orange) while driving the car.

I looked again, because the orange globes were of a more saturated and slightly darker orange than the street lights and above them. We both stared out the side windows to see six globes in total. They were arranged in two groups of three each, forming identical isosceles triangles. They hovered about 200 feet off the ground slightly west of U.S 52 and about 3 miles ESE of the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.We checked the time and it was 24:00 hrs (12:00 midnight.).

I could not make out a fuselage, but my gal saw a non-orange light come out of the center of area of one, then move away. The two craft hung motionless, one parallel to the ground and one with the apex tipped downward. They gave the amusing appearance of two fish in a fish-tank, hovering at odd juxtaposition to each other. The craft were roughly estimated to be 100' on the short side and 140' on the long sides and were identical in size. The orange globes were set at the most peripheral points of the craft and were estimated 10' in diameter.

They did not move, they did not make any sound that we could hear, and the fuselage did not become directly visible to us. Any hull color would have been flat black, or otherwise not visible in the dark of night.

We observed the two craft for about 5 minutes before driving out of sight of them. We met her relatives at the St. Paul Greyhound station at 00:25 on July 4, 2011

I am a nuclear chemist/health physicist working in the nuclear power industry. I have previously been an engineer for General Electric and a Sr. Engineer for Boeing at the Kennedy Space Center, FL. I have BS, MS, PhD in biology. My date is an administrative assistant at a law firm.

Posted 2011-08-07