CaseTriangle2012

St. Cloud, MN, USA

I was traveling east on I94 at 0500 hours going to work, it was dark just before the sunrise it was cloudy low lying clouds. I notice a

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-08
Where
St. Cloud, MN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 minnutes
Geo
45.561, -94.162 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-st-cloud-mn-2012-bb4d0c
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…

In context

  • St. Cloud, MN has 28 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 145 reports from Minnesota.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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