UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Spearfish Canyon, SD, USA

At aproximatly 18:20 Hrs. I was working outside in our parking lot and happened to look up at the moon and the bright planet to its low

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-24
Where
Spearfish Canyon, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 SECONDS
Geo
—
Slug
circle-over-spearfish-canyon-sd-2004-966acd
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

  • Spearfish Canyon, SD shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from South Dakota in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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