UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1947

Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Narrow light colored object spotted in Sioux Falls on July 4, 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 (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-07-04
Where
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
—
Geo
43.544, -96.728 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-sioux-falls-sd-1947-2a0bcb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    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…

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In context

  • Sioux Falls, SD shows up 70 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from South Dakota in 1947.

Report

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