Crooks, SD, USA
During fireworks show, obj. a half mile or so due E in the distance, w/ colored lights seen flashing lights quickly. ((anon. report))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-04
- Where
- Crooks, SD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 43.665, -96.811 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-crooks-sd-2016-7cc968
Part of a wave
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
- Crooks, SD shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from South Dakota in 2016.
Report
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