CaseRectangle2012
Saint Paul, MN, USA
One of those orange fireballs, but rectangular in shape.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-21
- Where
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 44.944, -93.093 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-saint-paul-mn-2012-629d9b
Wave
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
- Saint Paul, MN shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Minnesota in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.