CaseLight1996
Bismarck, ND, USA
Nat. Weather Serv. empl. sees a small, circular, distinctly flame-orange obj. in the S sky. Brighter & larger than brightest star.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-24
- Where
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 60 sec.
- Geo
- 46.808, -100.784 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bismarck-nd-1996-43cfbc
In context
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Bismarck, ND.
- This case is one of 7 North Dakota reports filed in 1996.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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