Five UFO sightings in North Dakota: only memories, no evidence
In an October 8 article, the website of an American radio station compiled five UFO sightings reported in North Dakota between 2023 and 2024. The accounts are based solely on what anonymous witnesses said, and none of them includes a photograph or recording.
The website of the radio station hot975fm.com, citing an aggregator site called UFOIndex.com, published five sightings reported in North Dakota over the past few years. The earliest took place on February 6, 2023, in Mandan, when a driver traveling on I-94 was watching a string of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites and claimed that another bright object, moving much higher than them, was following the satellites from west to east. On another occasion, the same witness saw a cigar-shaped, brightly shining object that, according to the witness, suddenly changed direction and then disappeared at extraordinary speed.
The other cases took place in March 2023 and April 2024. In Dickinson, on March 2, 2023, a witness riding in a car observed two connected, color-changing objects in the sky, and according to the article, another person also reported an unusual phenomenon in the town on the same day. In April 2024 in Washburn, a triangle-shaped object with three grayish lights was described, which moved in complete silence at high speed and then disappeared, and later, according to the witness, reappeared. Also in April 2024, in Fargo, a resident letting their dog out saw two light sources moving silently and extremely fast appear and disappear one after the other.
What do we know, and what don't we?
What we can say for certain: all five accounts survive in written form, in the witnesses' own words, and in none of the cases is the witness's name revealed. The article mentions no photograph, no video footage, and no official or scientific investigation in connection with any of the cases, so the stories cannot be compared against any independent data. It is also not known whether anyone other than the witnesses saw the described phenomena, with the exception of the two cases reported on the same day in Dickinson.
The article itself asks its readers whether new military technology from Minot Air Force Base might be behind what was described, but neither the authors nor any authority has confirmed this; it appears in the text only as an open question. The authors also note that, according to prairiepublic.org, similar sightings have been reported in North Dakota since 1948, but this historical background is not directly connected to the five cases presented now.
For now, the accounts thus remain five separate, unverified stories, linked only by the fact that they all took place in the skies of North Dakota within a few years.
The sober take
The article offers no official or expert explanation for the cases; the authors merely raise the possibility that military technology from Minot Air Force Base may be behind what was described, but nothing supports this.