UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Mitchell, SD, USA

Four lights moving east then suddenly west.

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-18
Where
Mitchell, SD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
43.709, -98.030 · exact
Slug
formation-over-mitchell-sd-2013-840c58
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

  • Mitchell, SD has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 20 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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