CaseUnknown1947
Dell Rapids, SD, USA
Round silver dinner plates seen in Dell Rapids area on July 5, 1947
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-05
- Where
- Dell Rapids, SD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 43.826, -96.706 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-dell-rapids-sd-1947-c7222a
Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Dell Rapids, SD has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1947 brought 2 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.