CaseLight2016

North Sioux City, SD, USA

White light ball moving south to north, then up.

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-29
Where
North Sioux City, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
42.527, -96.483 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-sioux-city-sd-2016-59e752
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…

In context

  • North Sioux City, SD has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 23 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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