UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Rapid City, SD, USA

Seemingly shooting star spilt into 4 objects, then joins back up into one object in the Black Hills.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-19
Where
Rapid City, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
light-over-rapid-city-sd-2009-55cf28
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

  • Rapid City, SD has 43 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 13 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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