New Town (near; on Hwy 23 between city and Hwy 83), ND, USA
Seen what appeared to be tornadoes but couldnt possibly have been.. Sunny, high of 80s, and no clouds in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-14
- Where
- New Town (near; on Hwy 23 between city and Hwy 83), ND, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- On going..
- Geo
- 47.981, -102.490 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-new-town-near-on-hwy-23-between-city-and-hwy-83-nd-2012-2efeba
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
- New Town (near; on Hwy 23 between city and Hwy 83), ND has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 12 reports from North Dakota.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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