UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2004

Chaska, MN, USA

Bright Object in skies above Minneapolis area, August 19th, 2004.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 16200s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-19
Where
Chaska, MN, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4.5 hours
Geo
44.789, -93.602 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-chaska-mn-2004-b98afe
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…

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Chaska, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 75 sightings in 2004.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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