Brainerd, MN, USA
Five bright flashes in the northeast sky were seen by two people at 9pm, 5/19/2015.
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-19
- Where
- Brainerd, MN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 46.358, -94.201 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-brainerd-mn-2015-098254
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Brainerd, MN.
- This case is one of 152 Minnesota reports filed in 2015.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.