Rochester, MN, USA
Sunday – December 18, 2011 at 5:30 PM A UFO was observed for aprox. 45 minutes in SouthWest Rochester around the Meadow Lakes Golf Cour
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-18
- Where
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 44.022, -92.470 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rochester-mn-2011-83583c
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
- Rochester, MN has 34 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 82 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.