CaseTriangle2016

Fargo, ND, USA

Was in the backyard hot tub looking up at the sky and looking for "shooting stars, when a triangular figure appeared.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-07
Where
Fargo, ND, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
46.877, -96.790 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-fargo-nd-2016-9d0e6e
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

  • One of 33 documented reports from Fargo, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Dakota logged 12 sightings in 2016.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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