Sartell, MN, USA
star took off after watching it
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-20
- Where
- Sartell, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 45.622, -94.207 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sartell-mn-2009-06dd3d
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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
- Sartell, MN shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Minnesota in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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