CaseChanging2012

Grand Forks, ND, USA

Firework- like balls of light dart and merge into a swelling ball of light.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-03
Where
Grand Forks, ND, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
47.925, -97.033 · exact
Slug
changing-over-grand-forks-nd-2012-fd2b51
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

  • One of 19 documented reports from Grand Forks, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Dakota logged 12 sightings in 2012.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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