UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Brookings, SD, USA

The singular object I saw was a brown darkish flat, circular, and shiny that was traveling around 35-40 MPH

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-27
Where
Brookings, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
44.311, -96.798 · exact
Slug
circle-over-brookings-sd-2020-36b06f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Brookings, SD shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from South Dakota in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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.