UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Rapid City, SD, USA

50 spaced lights,going sw to be at speeds similar to known space lab,etc. Could see 8-10 at a time.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-17
Where
Rapid City, SD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
44.081, -103.231 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rapid-city-sd-2020-9c9449
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

  • One of 43 documented reports from Rapid City, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 16 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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