Bismarck, ND, USA
Bright light traveling east turned south and then appeared to remain motionless for no less than a minute before disappearing.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-13
- Where
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 46.808, -100.784 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bismarck-nd-2015-fe3e5a
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Bismarck, ND.
- This case is one of 11 North Dakota reports filed in 2015.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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