CaseUnknown2014

Rapid City, SD, USA

Pulsing noise, purposely did not look for craft. Three seperate nights. Gets louder and faster as gets closer.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-17
Where
Rapid City, SD, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-rapid-city-sd-2014-d06a0e
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…

In context

  • Rapid City, SD shows up 43 times across the archive.
  • 21 reports came from South Dakota in 2014.

Report

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