CaseFormation2014

Bismarck, ND, USA

I was sitting at a stop light, a couple of lights up in the sky caught my eye. It was three lights in the form of a triangle.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-11-05
Where
Bismarck, ND, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.808, -100.784 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bismarck-nd-2014-91ad47
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 24 documented reports from Bismarck, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Dakota logged 11 sightings in 2014.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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