Sioux Falls (at UT 33 and Southeastern), SD, USA
I was riding on Hwy 11 between 41st and 26th when I spotted something weird by the water tower on 28th and Judy. At first I thought it
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-25
- Where
- Sioux Falls (at UT 33 and Southeastern), SD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- <2 minutes
- Geo
- 43.544, -96.728 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sioux-falls-at-ut-33-and-southeastern-sd-2015-565e3d
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…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Sioux Falls (at UT 33 and Southeastern), SD.
- This case is one of 17 South Dakota reports filed in 2015.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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