Fergus Falls, MN, USA
Man witnesses peculiar, orange-colored, triangular object against the night sky.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-20
- Where
- Fergus Falls, MN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 min. (est.)
- Geo
- 46.283, -96.078 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fergus-falls-mn-2005-5d4ce7
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…
Local cluster
May 2005 was a busy month for Fergus Falls, MN: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Fergus Falls, MN.
- This case is one of 75 Minnesota reports filed in 2005.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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