Maple Grove, MN, USA
Very Bright object and I mean Very Bright! watched about 5 min. returned 15 min later gone
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-07
- Where
- Maple Grove, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.072, -93.456 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-maple-grove-mn-2005-97be34
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
- Maple Grove, MN has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 75 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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