CaseCircle2014

Pierre, SD, USA

I was outside on my deck last night after I put my daughter to bed when I happened to see somewhat of a bright light outside moving at

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-20
Where
Pierre, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
44.368, -100.351 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pierre-sd-2014-71539d
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…

In context

  • Pierre, SD has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 21 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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