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North Dakota UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in North Dakota from 2005 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "egg" (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 07/08/05 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
North Dakota UFO Sighting Reports in 2005
This is a sampling of 20 North Dakota UFO reports from 2005, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
Slow-moving cigar/egg shaped object seen above Fargo I remember the date of this siting because it was the week of the Fargo Air Show. I had decided to take my morning break from work and have a walk around the neighborhood, specifically so that I could watch the Blue Angels practicing their maneuvers. There is a park near the bank where I work that has a large, open field.
I decided to linger a bit longer than normal in the beautiful, clear, warm day and watch the planes work their magic. So, I was standing in the middle of this field facing North. The Blue Angels were flying all around the sky, so I was just standing in one position and trying to catch as much of it as possible.
It was a very clear day. All of a sudden, I noticed an object almost directly above me very, very far up in the atmosphere. It was something between a cigar and an egg shape and had almost a khaki color to it.
It was moving extremely slowly from west to east. I have never seen a flying object move this slowly before. I was astonished at seeing this mainly because the Blue Angels did not seem to notice it at all.
(Granted, its position was much higher than their own.) The object just continued on its trajectory at the same speed the entire time. It seemed to be pushed by the wind more than move on its own power; however, that said, it was a very regular speed and constant direction.
There were no windows on the object, but it did seem to have the same shape and indentations as the object sited in St Louis this past summer. There were some very high cirrus clouds in the area, and the object seemed to disappear and reappear through those clouds, so that might give an indication as to its altitude. I watched the object for probably 10 minutes (which gives you an idea of how really slowly it was moving), and then suddenly felt very disturbed by it and walked back to work.
No one else seemed to notice the object, though there were several other people walking through the park and commenting on the Blue Angels. The reason I decided to post this report was that the object looks almost identical to the report from St Louis posted on your main page today. The only difference is that this object I saw was not metallic.
It had a khaki color and no irridescent or reflective qualities at all. I thought it might be a weather balloon, but never having seen one, I'm not sure if that's what it was. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
4 white lights at high altitude 11 pm central we were near Underwood lighting firewoks. As soon as our last artillery shell went off 3 of us saw a single bright white light shoot across the sky just above where the firework went off. One hour later while driving past Washburn we saw a single bright light wobbeling across the sky heading east, several thousand feet up.
At 1 am two more bright lights were seen near Bismarck, one traveling faster than the other, racing towards the north northwest. I made two attempts to photograph the wobbling light but it was too dim for the camera to pick up. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
A 16 year old girl sights saucer in Tuttle ND. I am a 16 year old girl, and me and my 17 year old male friend were driving around our small town approximently 2:00 A.M.
on May 28, 2005 and we saw what looked like a staight line of red lights. We were curious what they were so we turned South on the next rode and preceded to follow the lights that were southwest of us. We were pretty close to the lights and they began to look like a circular object and the red lights appeared to have little bars across them.
When it was close to us at this point and you could see it was very big. Then, for about ten seconds I looked down inside the pickup and looked back up and it wasn't there anymore, so I asked my friend where it went and he pointed to the other side of the rode, so I looked over and it was way on the other side of the rode towards the east. So, we turned on the next gravel road going east towards the object, but we decided we would stop it see if it was moving.
We watched it go right over my friends farm and it was hovering over it for at least a minute and then there appeared a smaller saucer right below the big one. As we watched them hovering over his farm it began moving very fast at an angle into the sky and it just disapeared into a little ball of light and it was gone. We followed it for at least 5 minutes before it disappeared, the whole time it seemed like it was running away from us when we would move towards it and when we would stop, it would stop with us.
I've never been a believer in these sorts of things, but what I saw last night made me question myself.
Full Report Text:
sighting in western north dakota On Feb. 25,2005 at about 10:20 p.m.
i was leaving a bar in Glen Ullin, nd and heading home. Directly south of the area i noticed an unusual light in the sky at what looked about 4500 feet in the air and what looked to be about eight miles south of where i was, overa local lake. i watched for a few minutes and noticed the light get very bright then dim a few times.
it was sort of blue white and remunded me of a search light on the bottom of a helicopter. while watching i noticed another light (not the same color, almost slightly amber)come towards the first light, then stop moving. i knew that this must be a ufo and callled the people in the bar(5) to come see.
we watched a couple minutes during which time a small plane flew almost between the object and us, then went back into the bar. one individual said he had seen ufos many times before. after a short time i decided to drive home (about 35 miles north) during the drive i watched the light through my rearview mirror.
after about 23 miles i stopped, got out of my truck and notice the lights again. they had risen in the air to approx. 10,000 feet and moved about 25 miles further north.
by this time i could see an outline of the crafts shape (Chevron) and that the craft was in my estimation about three times the size of a 747 jet. (if i had held a quarter at arms length it would not cover the object) I continued my drive the rest of the way to the town i live in and after that the object was still in the air, only a little higher and further north. the drive took approx.
40-45 minutes. i went into another bar for about an hour and when i came out the object was gone.
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2005 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Egg | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2005 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2005 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Friday | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2005 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/08/05 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
02/25/05 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
05/28/05 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
07/03/05 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2005 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
All North Dakota Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2005
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in North Dakota, in 2005
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Fargo | 1 UFO Reports | Fargo UFO Sightings in 2005 |
Glen Ullin | 1 UFO Reports | Glen Ullin UFO Sightings in 2005 |
Tuttle | 1 UFO Reports | Tuttle UFO Sightings in 2005 |
Underwood | 1 UFO Reports | Underwood UFO Sightings in 2005 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in North Dakota
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in North Dakota.