UFOMYST
CaseLight2022

Brookings, SD, USA

Ball of light accelerating overhead into the distance

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-03-02
Where
Brookings, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
44.311, -96.798 · exact
Slug
light-over-brookings-sd-2022-8567e3
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Brookings, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 9 sightings in 2022.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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