CaseUnknown2017

Grand Marais, MN, USA

Went out of house saw red and white flashing lights in moonless clear night. Could not make out shape of object. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-24
Where
Grand Marais, MN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.750, -90.334 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-grand-marais-mn-2017-7d8024
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

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Grand Marais, MN.
  • This case is one of 83 Minnesota reports filed in 2017.

Report

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