UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Rapid City, SD, USA

There was 5 of us outside. I looked to the east and seen a bright white light. I thought it was a helicopter but heard nothing. I let m

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-22
Where
Rapid City, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 mins
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
light-over-rapid-city-sd-2009-2534ed
Wave

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In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Rapid City, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 13 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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