Sioux Falls, SD, USA
((HOAX??)) There were 12 orange lights Moving west to east. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2019-01-23
- Where
- Sioux Falls, SD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.544, -96.728 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sioux-falls-sd-2019-c02631
Part of a wave
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
- One of 70 documented reports from Sioux Falls, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Dakota logged 15 sightings in 2019.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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