CaseChanging2019

Bismarck/Mandan (between), ND, USA

Strange expanding portal looking object seen in broad daylight.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-04-20
Where
Bismarck/Mandan (between), ND, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
46.808, -100.784 · exact
Slug
changing-over-bismarck-mandan-between-nd-2019-05df60
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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Bismarck/Mandan (between), ND.
  • This case is one of 18 North Dakota reports filed in 2019.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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