Minot, ND, USA
Obj. with 6 lights,triangular in shape with a tail, moved from the S area in the sky to the N and then just hovered.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-19
- Where
- Minot, ND, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 Hours
- Geo
- 48.233, -101.296 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-minot-nd-2008-dc23f8
Part of a wave
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
- Minot, ND shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from North Dakota in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.