UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2008

Hope, ND, USA

Large bright orange light moving to the south changed to green and disappeared into the northern black sky.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-03
Where
Hope, ND, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.322, -97.722 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-hope-nd-2008-97f0b2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hope, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Dakota logged 10 sightings in 2008.

Report

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