CaseUnknown2008

Black Hills, SD, USA

Light seen in the Black Hills

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-15
Where
Black Hills, SD, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
approx. 15 min
Geo
44.417, -103.709 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-black-hills-sd-2008-b7818d
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…

In context

  • Black Hills, SD has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 8 reports from South Dakota.

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.