Unexplained Crafts Spotted Over Cold Spring: A Stearns County Mystery (2025)

Unidentified Flying Objects, otherwise known as UFOs, have been reported for centuries. Many times, these UFOs can be explained after some research and consideration, but others, well, they can be rather hard to explain. One such encounter happened right here in Stearns County back in 2012, and was reported that same year to the MUFON group. Here's what happened, according to the online report.

The report was made in August of 2012, while the encounter was said to have happened in February of the same year.

"On February 22nd, 2012, my wife and I headed off to Ash Wednesday Mass at about 6:40 pm. As we drove through downtown Cold Spring Minnesota, we traveled east towards Rockville, Minnesota where our church is. As we drove through downtown, we both noticed two crafts flying to our south about two blocks away and at about the height of the water tower. The two crafts were south of the water tower. So they were to our right as we were driving.

We were both transfixed on them because it seemed so strange two crafts flying that low and slow. At first we thought they might be helicopters, but they there were flying very close to each other. They were in a formation with the lead craft slightly ahead of the other and stayed locked into that pattern. They both had flashing lights on them which then again made us think they were helicopters. They were flying way to slow and low to be planes, and planes would never fly that close together. I have seen the Blue Angeles perform and they would be the only ones who could pull off a maneuver like that.

As we traveled along main street, we intersected with Hwy 23 that runs through town. Hwy 23 runs east/west and the crafts were flying parallel to the Hwy. When we reached the intersection (probably 20 seconds from once we first saw the crafts), the traffic light was green for us and we crossed onto Hwy 23 and we were now traveling East on Hwy 23 to Rockville. Just then the two craft made an abrupt turn to the North East and slowly traveled right over our car. This is where it gets really strange. We immediately rolled down our windows to see if we could make out the crafts. We noticed that there was no noise. A helicopter at that altitude would sound very loud, but these did not make a sound. Also, I can't be 100% sure because it was the end of twilight, but we both thought we saw the shapes of the craft and they looked like triangles. In addition, we saw a dark blue light underneath one of the crafts. This dark blue light did not flash. We've never seen anything like this before. We watched as they drifted off towards the northeast. Very strange."

The report, is pretty detailed in the sense that the person reporting the encounter kept a pretty good bearing on where they were, and where the craft were in relation to the vehicle/road. The reporter also is able to describe the shape of the crafts, triangle in shape.

It's been 13 years since this encounter in Cold Spring, and looking at the reports that have been made in Stearns County over the years, it wasn't the only report coming from the Cold Spring area.

Another report, from 2024 in Cold Spring, seems to indicate that others have seen some of the same type of craft.

"Was looking at the stars and noticed a 4-"star" constellation (patterned vaguely like a triangle/diamond) move smoothly from west to east. Appeared lower to ground than airplanes/jets. Made no sound.Had to be very large, given relative visual observation of known aircraft."

Whatever you believe, whether it's little green men, or something more 'real' world, we can't deny that there are something things we just don't know the answers to right now.