Newtown, ND, USA
This was seen by my family. I just got word over facebook about what was going on. brother former cop and also one other witness.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-17
- Where
- Newtown, ND, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 47.981, -102.490 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newtown-nd-2015-b3bf09
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 1 reports logged in Newtown, 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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