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North Dakota UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 18 UFO sighting reports in North Dakota from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "unknown" (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 22.22% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 04/18/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 11.11% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 33.33% of total).
North Dakota UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 North Dakota UFO reports from 2019, 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).
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MADAR Node 93.
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White lights and a moving ball changing colour 5 lights shining in the sky in the shape of a triangle - then on video we recorded a circle that changed shape and colour, moved in strange directions, up and down - looked like it had a glitter trail every time it moved.
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MADAR Node 93.
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I seen about 75 lights appear in the sky heading in an East direction over about a 25 minute time span. Groups of 7 at a time. The appeared at a certain spot in the sky and kept coming out of it.
I was able to view 1 cigar shaped craft with 2 lights on it. Several stopped in the sky and began moving again. Very scary.
I thought we were being attacked.
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UFO found in photo taken of circular draft disturbance. Photo time stamp 3:25PM Sat. October 12, 2019.
Taken one photo showing a large circular draft disturbance in cloud overcast. Area of photo shoot mile marker 54 Interstate 94 North Dakota. Reviewed photo around lunch time October 15, 2019 Noticed an image with a con trail not seen at time of photo shoot.
That is all witnessed.
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MADAR Node 93.
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dropped altitude fast, circular, blinking lights simultaneously, disappeared after reaching city lights level One UFO, was driving on S 42nd street headed North when I looked across the interstate and noticed what I thought to be an airplane at first but then realized it started dropping altitude way too fast to be one, dropped fast but in a diagonal line once what appeared to be reaching city lights level, slowed and completely disappeared. Had to be a disk or circular snap with lights that blinked simultaneously.
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Observed a round craft with blinking lights, then seen a black rim of light, this craft went into this black space and disappeared. After that all I seen was stars where this object was.
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Seemimgly ball of fire colored object moving fast SE to NW. No smoke or sound observed. Object was going from southease to northwest.
Was a bright orange colored ball. Possible under 1000 ft elevation, estimated traveled about 20 miles in under 5 minutes.
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Light in the sky swiftly stopped then slowly crept out of sight. A few nights ago I got up to let my dogs out. While waiting for them to do their business, I noticed what I thought was a plane flying swiftly through the sky.
Its direction seemed to be heading north-west. But then, all of a sudden, it stopped. As you can see in the video it appeared to be hovering slightly westward.
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information about the sighting. PD)).
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Red Flames coming from the back end. There were two objects in the night sky moving north to south direction. The first object was moving very fast, and there were no strobe lights like an airplane would have.
Then after a few seconds there was a 2nd object with the same characteristic as the first flying behind. Same instance of flames from the back end. You could see type of wing on both sides of where the flames were coming out of the back.
It wasn't balloons due to moving in a perfect straight line with no deviated course. Around the back of the object seemed to be a white aura. Shortly after these too went into the distance at fast speeds and no sound was heard.
Another object of the same characteristic came out of nowhere and from NNE to SSW direction then disappeared shortly after. As I have never seen this before and it was during the fireworks but it was way to high and going way to fast. It was like a spacecraft or even unconfirmed space debris possibly.
But the strange thing it looked ! like it went out of the atmosphere due to the flames were directly showing only with the aura in a shape of wings. There was no sound coming from these objects. Very strange.
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Cluster of fast moving lights traveling in a straight line. We were sitting outside near downtown Fargo and we looked up and saw a cluster of 25 to 30 individual dots traveling in a straight line from west of southwest to east of northeast. The cluster gave off a white haze and behind the cluster were 5 or 6 stragglers that followed the exact same path.
They moved a little bit faster than a satellite in the night sky and had no visible blinking lights. Maybe unrelated, but after the lights were unable to be seen a neighbor's dog barked for a few seconds. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of cluster of Space Link satellites.
PD)).
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We were sitting outside looking up at the stars and a string of white objects appeared, about 50 tiny objects in a perfectly straight line. It moved slowly across the sky and then began to spread out and fall toward the ground. It seems like there was a bigger object in the front and all the rest were following it.
Then is slowly began to disappear, from the back to the front. I got my camera out and filmed it for a while, not sure if something was crashing or falling, if it was a meteor or a UFO(s) it was wild. ((NUFORC Note: SpaceLink satellites.
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Strange expanding portal looking object seen in broad daylight. My daughter, 10yrs old, boyfriend 27yrs old, and self were driving across The Memorial Bridge and had just come from a helicopter ride in Bismarck, North Dakota (they were giving these to raise money for charity) part of this "ride" was to go up the river. So we were driving over the bridge and watching the helicopter we were just in go up the river, when suddenly this white sphere looking thing appeared in the air (like it just blinked into existence) and was spinning it was about a 1/2 city block from the bridge and hanging over the water, about the size of a geo metro (weird comparison I know lol) it suddenly expanded and started to resemble a wheel with bicycle spokes it was still spinning (clockwise) and had this swirling like mass in the center of it.
the wheel, spokes and mass were all a white/grey color and I instantly thought "OMG its a dimensional portal opening!!" I slowed down as there was nobody else on the bridge (which was kinda weird at this time of day) and it expanded to about the size of a basketball court (another weird comparison lol) either way it was huge. and It stayed this size for about 5 seconds. then like stopped spinning and went in reverse and started shrinking in size back to the geo metro size it started with and then got smaller and blinked out of existence.
we all saw this object, and once it disappeared I drove down to sit under the bridge to see if it would come back and it did not. while we were down there I made everyone draw what they saw and we all compared drawings and it was weird cause my kid saw some kind of symbols within it. (I will send the drawings of the object for your report.
anyway very odd. my brother also had a very strange incident happen at our lake cabin last summer (Lake Sakakawea) that I would like to report. There was missing time involved with my brothers encounter.
Anyway that is my report.
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Pulsing noises outside, loud as heck My foster brother and I heard loud pulsing noises coming from outside and it was so Loud and the other night we seen some ufos, but Tonight we heard one of them close to The ground.
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We heard pulsing notices outside of our apartment building We heard pulsing outside which was very loud, and it sounded like it was on top of our apartment building.
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Flew quickly straight across sky from east to west.
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Light | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2019 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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September | 4 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2019 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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04/18/19 | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
07/23/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
09/15/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
09/20/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 1 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
North Dakota UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 6 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 5 reported sightings | 27.78% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
All North Dakota Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in North Dakota, in 2019
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Fargo | 4 UFO Reports | Fargo UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Valley City | 3 UFO Reports | Valley City UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Bismarck | 2 UFO Reports | Bismarck UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Minot | 2 UFO Reports | Minot UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Dickinson | 1 UFO Reports | Dickinson UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Stanley | 1 UFO Reports | Stanley UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Grand Forks | 1 UFO Reports | Grand Forks UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Limpopo | 1 UFO Reports | Limpopo UFO Sightings in 2019 |
New Leipzig | 1 UFO Reports | New Leipzig UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Lidgerwood | 1 UFO Reports | Lidgerwood UFO Sightings in 2019 |
Fort Yates | 1 UFO Reports | Fort Yates UFO Sightings in 2019 |
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.