Brandon, SD, USA
About 7-9 orange objects appeared in the sky to the East, moving Northeast; each faded out after about seven minutes.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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 (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-01
- Where
- Brandon, SD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- seven minutes
- Geo
- 43.595, -96.572 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-brandon-sd-2010-90b86d
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
- Brandon, SD has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 14 reports from South Dakota.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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