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

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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

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