CaseRectangle2012

Saint Paul, MN, USA

Rectangle object with lights moving across sky

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: 17s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-28
Where
Saint Paul, MN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
17 seconds
Geo
44.944, -93.093 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-saint-paul-mn-2012-e5f144
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

  • 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 days

Report

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