Fergus Falls, MN, USA
I observed a bright orange triangle that made no noise and moved slowly into the North disappearing.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 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
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 46.283, -96.078 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fergus-falls-mn-2005-c47f0b
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
3 reports came out of Fergus Falls, MN in May 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Fergus Falls, MN has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 75 reports from Minnesota.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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