Grand Marais, MN, USA
Bright stationary light seen above Grand Marais, then tracks slowly until it disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite?? PD))((anonymous))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-05-26
- Where
- Grand Marais, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.750, -90.334 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-grand-marais-mn-2019-cae3ca
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.
- 127 reports came from Minnesota in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.