UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Keystone, SD, USA

Strange Orb light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of ISS? Please check . PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-22
Where
Keystone, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 sec
Geo
43.896, -103.418 · exact
Slug
circle-over-keystone-sd-2009-e15f4e
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Keystone, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 13 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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