CaseCross2012

Elk River, MN, USA

Clear, sunny afternoon, no clouds. Was outside doing yard work and looked up to see a white jet flying south over the house, leaving a

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-09
Where
Elk River, MN, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
45.304, -93.567 · exact
Slug
cross-over-elk-river-mn-2012-4aacf7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Elk River, MN shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Minnesota in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.

Report

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