Granite Falls, MN, USA
Cigar/Triangular shape, changing colors across skyline, met by darting white object
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-18
- Where
- Granite Falls, MN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 44.810, -95.546 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-granite-falls-mn-2005-b8f981
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
- Granite Falls, MN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Minnesota in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.