Jamestown, ND, USA
AUTHOR"S SUMMARY: The object was around the size of a small car it changed shape and light color and pattern as it moved. it was silen
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-01-01
- Where
- Jamestown, ND, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- around 10 mins
- Geo
- 46.911, -98.708 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-jamestown-nd-1997-d003a3
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Jamestown, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Dakota logged 2 sightings in 1997.
- Changing sightings ran at 1.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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