CaseCigar1966
Minot AFB, ND, USA
UFO takes 10 Minuteman ICBMs "off alert."
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-15
- Where
- Minot AFB, ND, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 48.421, -101.339 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-minot-afb-nd-1966-9b674c
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Minot AFB, ND has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 1 reports from North Dakota.
- The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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