UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Mitchell, SD, USA

Orange light that fades out and reappears.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-10-24
Where
Mitchell, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
43.709, -98.030 · exact
Slug
light-over-mitchell-sd-2013-97930f
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 Mitchell, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 20 sightings in 2013.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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