UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2004

Rapid City/ Box Elder, SD, USA

Saw tri-angle lights under dark body while driving west on I-90.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-11-15
Where
Rapid City/ Box Elder, SD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 Min
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-rapid-city-box-elder-sd-2004-9eac80
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/ Box Elder, SD has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 13 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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