Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Two oval objects appeared in the sky right where unmarked planes made an X con-trail!! ((NUFORC Note: Contrails?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-02-19
- Where
- Sioux Falls, SD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 43.544, -96.728 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sioux-falls-sd-2008-7b2ef4
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Sioux Falls, SD.
- This case is one of 8 South Dakota reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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