UFOMYST
CaseDisk1966

Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD, USA

UFOs visited our Minuteman ICBMS during the summer of 1966 and I was there.

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1966-06-25
Where
Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
several hours
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
disk-over-rapid-city-ellsworth-afb-sd-1966-8543df
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from South Dakota in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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