UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Belle Fourche, SD, USA

The light started off as white. Flashing in an off pattern. The light slowly began moving away. Then changed directions and headed towa

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.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-20
Where
Belle Fourche, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.671, -103.852 · exact
Slug
light-over-belle-fourche-sd-2017-79f824
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…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Belle Fourche, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 18 sightings in 2017.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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