Golden Valley, MN, USA
A teardrop shaped UFO rose from a small pond, hovered for a moment at the treeline, charged up, and accelerated into the SE sky.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-15
- Where
- Golden Valley, MN, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.010, -93.349 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-golden-valley-mn-2009-49fd37
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.
- 2009 brought 64 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
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.