Golden Valley, MN, USA
At about 1:00 AM on Wedsday 16th, 2005 I just came back from a movie and as I was coming in my drive way i saw an small oval shaped obj
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-02-16
- Where
- Golden Valley, MN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.010, -93.349 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-golden-valley-mn-2005-6bbfe0
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
- Golden Valley, MN has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 75 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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