UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Eight lights in southeast Sioux Falls

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-07
Where
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3 min
Geo
43.544, -96.728 · exact
Slug
formation-over-sioux-falls-sd-2012-d7db44
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 70 documented reports from Sioux Falls, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 27 sightings in 2012.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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