Valley City, ND, USA
Black triangular craft rising from ground with 3 lights that flashed just before the craft disappeared.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-06-14
- Where
- Valley City, ND, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 46.923, -98.003 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-valley-city-nd-2020-cd5bdf
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
- Valley City, ND has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 25 reports from North Dakota.
- The 2020s skewed 6.2% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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