There’s been a lot of air traffic lately, fighting wildfires across Northern Minnesota. We’ve seen helicopters and planes scooping up water from lakes to put out the fires, on top of all the normal air traffic we see. So, it’s been a busy time in the sky.
Unidentified Object Spotted May 15th, 2026, Central St. Louis County
Friday night, on May 15th, 2026, at 8:36 PM, something strange caught my eye. The wind had finally died down, and we went out on the lake for a ride on the pontoon. The sun was starting to set, and it lit up a white object high up in the air. At first, I thought it was a commercial airliner, but it didn’t have any contrails behind it, like they normally do. It appeared to be too high to be a small plane.
I took several photos zoomed in to try to figure out what it was. My best guess is that it’s some sort of large government drone. It was way too high to be a hobby drone.
It moved slowly from west to east. After I took the photos, I looked down at my phone to zoom in. A minute later, when I looked up again, it was gone.
No Flight Data On Flight Tracker
I looked up flight data from Flightradar24 to see if a plane or something could be identified. The only plane showing up for that entire hour was a small Cessna plane flying North about 20 minutes before we saw this object. Nothing else was recorded.
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Maybe it was a drone being used to spot wildfires? You would think that something that high in the air would need a transponder, but as I said, it wasn’t on any of the flight data.
If you know what it was, let me know!
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