UFOMYST
CaseSphere2014

Rapid City, SD, USA

05/06/2014 Lights Over Rapid City, South Dakota.

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: 4260s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-06-05
Where
Rapid City, SD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 hour 11minutes
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rapid-city-sd-2014-999b91
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

  • Rapid City, SD has 43 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 21 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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