CaseLight2004

St. Cloud, MN, USA

I saw a light in the sky that traveled in a straight line. This light lasted approx. 5 seconds. this is the second time in a month

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-18
Where
St. Cloud, MN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
45.561, -94.162 · exact
Slug
light-over-st-cloud-mn-2004-52dddc
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

  • St. Cloud, MN shows up 28 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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