UFOMYST
CaseSphere2006

Rock Hill, SD, USA

Bright spherical object was moving from south to north at about 5,000 feet in altitude; very high rate of speed. Size of the object wa

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-09-01
Where
Rock Hill, SD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 secs
Geo
34.925, -81.025 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-rock-hill-sd-2006-03d00e
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Rock Hill, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 7 sightings in 2006.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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