UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Bismarck, ND, USA

Two lights flying sideways and stationary over residential area.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-21
Where
Bismarck, ND, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
46.808, -100.784 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-bismarck-nd-2017-ce0742
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…

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In context

  • Bismarck, ND shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from North Dakota in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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