Rapid City, SD, USA
Triangular object over Rapid City
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-18
- Where
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 44.081, -103.231 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rapid-city-sd-2009-fb171c
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…
Local cluster
May 2009 was a busy month for Rapid City, SD: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 43 reports logged in Rapid City, SD.
- This case is one of 13 South Dakota reports filed in 2009.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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