CaseUnknown1966
Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD, USA
I KNOW THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED, AND I BELIEVE HE IS TELLING IT THE WAY HE KNOW'S IT.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 259200s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-25
- Where
- Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2-4 DAYS
- Geo
- 44.081, -103.231 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rapid-city-ellsworth-afb-sd-1966-03c67a
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB), SD in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Dakota logged 3 sightings in 1966.
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.