CaseFormation1961
Williston, ND, USA
In the winter of 1961, a witness in Williston, North Dakota, reported a large illuminated white light with several smaller blue lights converging and then dimming, over 30 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (180 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-12-31
- Where
- Williston, ND, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 48.147, -103.618 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-williston-nd-1961-51271a
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Williston, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Dakota logged 1 sightings in 1961.
- Formation sightings ran at 1.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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