Richardton, ND, USA
My wife and son and I were watching fire works towards the west side of town from the east and we saw a fire shape bell object leave fr
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Richardton, ND, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 46.884, -102.316 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-richardton-nd-2010-971f55
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Richardton, ND.
- This case is one of 5 North Dakota reports filed in 2010.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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