UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2022

Hill City, SD, USA

As I was leaving Hill City this morning going back to Rapid City, I saw a bright point of light.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-08
Where
Hill City, SD, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
43.932, -103.575 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-hill-city-sd-2022-8defad
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hill City, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 9 sightings in 2022.

Report

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