Rochester, MN, USA
saw a bright light shape like a circle on top of a rectangle, flashes and dissapears.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-08
- Where
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 secs
- Geo
- 44.022, -92.470 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rochester-mn-2019-d8f9e2
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 shows up 34 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.