UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Mission, SD, USA

Stationary bright white lights tightly arranged in 2 rows of 3 in eastern sky, with full moon.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-05
Where
Mission, SD, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
43.306, -100.658 · exact
Slug
other-over-mission-sd-2017-372cb4
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

  • Mission, SD has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 18 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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