CaseUnknown2021
Sturgis, SD, USA
Multiple streaks in same spot, followed by slower one
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-06-21
- Where
- Sturgis, SD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- ~10 seconds
- Geo
- 44.410, -103.509 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-sturgis-sd-2021-c35398
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Sturgis, SD.
- This case is one of 7 South Dakota reports filed in 2021.
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.