Edina, MN, USA
I think I was 15 and my father was driving me to my friends house. As we were going down 212 and getting on highway 62 I saw something
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-12
- Where
- Edina, MN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 44.890, -93.350 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-edina-mn-2005-48e3bb
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
- Edina, MN shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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