Saint Cloud, MN, USA
Definetly not a typical aircraft, military or commercial jet of any kind
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-04
- Where
- Saint Cloud, MN, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 45.561, -94.162 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-saint-cloud-mn-2006-002b69
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
- Saint Cloud, MN shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from Minnesota in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate 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.