Grand Forks, ND, USA
Shaped like ^ ---and had lights across it, they lights were in a row and moved in a row upwards then the lights went completely off
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-25
- Where
- Grand Forks, ND, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.925, -97.033 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-grand-forks-nd-2009-756b51
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
- One of 19 documented reports from Grand Forks, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Dakota logged 9 sightings in 2009.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.