UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Two pulsating orange balls moving from the south.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-30
Where
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minute
Geo
43.544, -96.728 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sioux-falls-sd-2014-284332
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

  • This is one of 70 reports logged in Sioux Falls, SD.
  • This case is one of 21 South Dakota reports filed in 2014.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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