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UFOs are back in the news — and Minnesotans are seeing more of them

About half of Minnesota's roughly UFO 1,700 sightings since the 1940s have taken place in this decade.

By Jeff Hargarten

October 16, 2019 at 10:37AM

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Jeff Hargarten

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Jeff Hargarten is a Star Tribune journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design.

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