Cottage Grove, MN, USA
Small light that changed shape, went high speed and had no source present.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-01
- Where
- Cottage Grove, MN, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 44.828, -92.944 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-cottage-grove-mn-2013-5b1366
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Cottage Grove, MN has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 126 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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