UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Yankton, SD, USA

Large metal structure suspended in the air and fleet of aircraft around it and interacting with it, and beaming light to the ground.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-25
Where
Yankton, SD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 hour
Geo
42.871, -97.397 · exact
Slug
formation-over-yankton-sd-2013-a72c39
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Wave

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  • 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

  • Yankton, SD has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 20 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

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