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Brookings · SD, USA
Ball of light accelerating overhead into the distance
Marion · SD, USA
White dot with 3 cloudy rings with top and bottom truncated. Diameter 2 ft of my vision. Fades to nothing in 60 Seconds
Rapid City · SD, USA
70 lights all moving around sky. Initially look like stars but are rapidly blinking. An seemingly in atmosphere. Some are orange.some a
Yankton · SD, USA
2 orange lights hovering slowly before flickering out west of Yankton/North of Gavins Point Dam
Madison · SD, USA
Small burst of light that resembled a shooting star, but much much closer. Lasted approximately 5 seconds.
Milbank · SD, USA
Notice single white lights ((Starlink satellites?))
Sturgis · SD, USA
50 UFOs flew in a straight line, perfectly spaced apart. (("Spacelink" satellites??))
Black Hawk · SD, USA
Line of evenly spaced white, star-like lights moving in night sky from west to east and disappearing overhead.
Belle Fourche · SD, USA
2 lights appear one over the other, both ascend, slowly disappear. Saw same last 3 nights. ((anonymous report))
Sisseton · SD, USA
Line of 30 lights in a line. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites. PD))
Rapid City · SD, USA
I was in and out of the house throughout the night observing the Perseids meteor shower. I chose a pair of bright stars in the northern
Gary · SD, USA
Ten bright orange lights move into formation, hover, turn white, and then vanish.
Belle Fourche · SD, USA
The light started off as white. Flashing in an off pattern. The light slowly began moving away. Then changed directions and headed towa
Howard · SD, USA
Red lights moving southeast to the north, one made a 90 degree turn.
Hartford · SD, USA
Round, glows and blinks, maintains car speed and is near to me and the ground. Followed for miles. ((anonymous report))
Sioux Falls · SD, USA
I was stopped at the intersection of 26th and Sycamore in Sioux Falls, SD, at 19:32. A huge bright light (white) was falling from the
Aberdeen · SD, USA
Out walking at about 21:00 in Aberdeen SD I saw a very bright orange, firey light moving across the sky from easy to west at about 45 d
Madison · SD, USA
Strange hovering light due East of Madison, SD. Sighting occurred at the dosc golf course at 7th and Blanche. Light hovered in the far
North Sioux City · SD, USA
White light ball moving south to north, then up.
Sioux Falls · SD, USA
Redish orangeish ball of light flying over my house making absolutely no noise.
Wakpala · SD, USA
At first there were flashing lights in the sky that were way lower than a star.. And these lights seem to be hovering and making quick
Sioux Falls · SD, USA
((e-addres deleted)) email if seen also. Small repeating light patterned craft move across sky.
Sisseton · SD, USA
light over south dakota
Pierre · SD, USA
Bright light with no sound moves west to east.