CaseLight2002
Rapid City, SD, USA
A single point of light, similar to a satellite, was seen moving erratically across the night sky over the Black Hills of SD.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-28
- Where
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- appr 5 min
- Geo
- 44.081, -103.231 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rapid-city-sd-2002-555173
In context
- This is one of 43 reports logged in Rapid City, SD.
- This case is one of 8 South Dakota reports filed in 2002.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.