Grand Marais, MN, USA
3/5/05 Snowmobiling 9:30 p.m. on northern Mn. lake, several lights appeared above trees, blinking off and on, not moving, 45 min.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-05
- Where
- Grand Marais, MN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- approx 1 hr
- Geo
- 47.750, -90.334 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-grand-marais-mn-2005-281967
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
- Grand Marais, MN shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2005.
Report
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