NUFORC Reports for State SD

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	06/25/1995 22:45	Sioux Falls	SD	USA		UFO investigator relays rept.: his son and other children rept. witnessing 4-5 red objs. 4 miles W of city. Two objs. seen to land.	06/27/1995
Open	07/25/1995 20:30	Marion	SD	USA		Woman w/ nephew & niece witness "long, white thing w/ a red tail" streak from E to S horizon. It was shaped like rocket.	07/30/1995
Open	11/20/1995 06:15	Belle Fourche	SD	USA		MUFON State Dir. relays rpt: Postal empl. heading W on highway witnesses very large white w/ green tail streak vert. to horizon.	11/20/1995
Open	05/13/1996 20:15	Black Hills	SD	USA		Man witnesses bizarre silvery disc, "as long as 2 school buses," hover, then streak away. (Phone line goes dead. No other data.)	05/14/1996
Open	04/18/1997 04:20	Hartford	SD	USA		Man sees a large, white disc in the night sky. Obj. splits into 2 smaller orange orbs, one of which maneuvers, then 2 orbs rejoin!	04/18/1997
Open	11/17/1997 02:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	other	Giant white streak moving across the sky at a high rate of speed stopped and took a 90 degree turn and went straight up and eventually	11/20/1997
Open	05/18/1998 23:30	Rapid City	SD	USA	Other	there was a light similar to a falling star, only bigger and longer in duration...i have seen plenty of falling stars and this was not	05/18/1998
Open	07/06/1998 17:40	Rapid City	SD	USA	Other	Looked towards a thunderstorm approaching from the west. First saw a bright shape in the sky in the northwest direction. The light wa	07/06/1998
Open	07/01/1998 22:00	Sturgis	SD	USA	Triangle	triangle shaped craft flies over campground in sturgis south dakota	03/01/1999
Open	11/15/1956 18:30	Aberdeen	SD	USA	Circle	Traveled south to north at a slow speed,(90deg. of arc in two min). Size of a half dollar coin at arms length, had a neon orange glow.	04/01/1999
Open	08/11/1999 17:30	Hwy. 90	SD	USA	Triangle	A cloud appeared in the sky, huge, oval in shape, emitting the most amazing magnetic field, shooting lightening out in short spikes aro	08/19/1999
Open	07/20/1968 15:00	Zell (farm outside of)	SD	USA	Disk	small disk shaped object, weaving in between high voltage lines, 20 to 30 feet over my head, broad daylight, dull gray in color and emi	12/09/1999
Open	05/29/2000 01:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Fireball	I am going out of my apartment reguraly to smoke cigaretes, and since I am working nights, I am a night owl you can say. I have seen me	05/28/2000
Open	09/27/2000 20:35	Rapid City	SD	USA	Orb	Looked for and found a satellite, as well as a UFO	09/28/2000
Open	10/21/2000 12:00	DeSmet	SD	USA	Unknown	We were at the Lake Henry fishing. We took a picture and we never saw anything but when we looked at the picture there is an object in	10/23/2000
Open	07/04/1999 21:00	Pine Ridge	SD	USA	Light	steady light yellow orangish light moving from southwest to middle of the night sky turning sharp and headed due north.	03/02/2001
Open	11/01/2000 21:00	Mitchell	SD	USA	Other	It looked like a flying canoe.	05/11/2001
Open	06/28/2001 23:00	Spearfish	SD	USA	Light	On a camping trip, I saw what I've been waiting for all my life.	06/30/2001
Open	08/01/2001 23:15	Iroquois	SD	USA	Oval	Bright oval light moving west to east near the North Star	08/02/2001
Open	08/30/2001 21:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Light	many light objects flying around in an area	08/31/2001
Open	07/07/1998 00:30	Marty	SD	USA	Egg	Amber egg-shaped craft,ascended at slow speed.	09/20/2001
Open	10/15/2001 19:35	Rapid City	SD	USA	Triangle	I have never seen anything like this before. It kind of scared me.	10/15/2001
Open	09/01/1995 10:30	Eagle Butte	SD	USA	Light	The unexplained bright blue light.	12/19/2001
Open	02/18/2002 01:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Triangle	Grouping of rectangular or triangular objects, hovering, dancing around each other, absolutely silent, then rapid accleration.	02/21/2002
Open	12/31/2001 21:37	Mission	SD	USA	Unknown	T WAS SHAPED LIKE NOTHING IVE EVER SAW, AND IT WAS SCARY AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME.	05/10/2002
Open	07/28/2002 22:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Orb	A single point of light, similar to a satellite, was seen moving erratically across the night sky over the Black Hills of SD.	07/29/2002
Open	08/19/1996 22:30	Spencer	SD	USA	Unknown	Alien crafts-Eastern South Dakota- late summer early fall 1996	07/31/2002
Open	07/12/2002 01:20	Rapid City	SD	USA	Light	spooky light that shines at you but tries to act like a star in a constellation afterwards.	08/01/2002
Open	07/28/1992 02:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Light	3 Moving Star Sized Lites Grace South Dakota Nite Sky	08/09/2002
Open	01/19/1994 19:00	Summit	SD	USA	Disk	Large Silver Disk explodes over SD Antenna Field....	08/19/2002
Open	09/06/2002 20:30	Spearfish	SD	USA	Cigar	I saw a cigar shaped, glowing blue object travelling at a high rate of speed.	09/20/2002
Open	12/07/2002 23:15	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Teardrop	12/7/02 - Tear shaped white light that shot straight up out of sight.	12/07/2002
Open	09/15/1987 21:00	Yankton	SD	USA	Triangle	silent isosceles triangle shaped mirage-like UFO with no lights	12/09/2002
Open	07/15/1972 00:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Cylinder	A secret kept for too many years by a young boy	12/18/2002
Open	01/03/2003 02:29	Ft. Thompson	SD	USA	Light	freaky mann...........................................	01/03/2003
Open	12/07/2002 23:30	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Teardrop	Have seen numerous objects over sky north of Sioux Falls in past few months.	01/21/2003
Open	10/05/1968 21:30	Nunda	SD	USA	Disk	My uncle had a close encounter in 1968	01/24/2003
Open	02/12/2003 06:35	Huron	SD	USA	Triangle	A triangular shape light that hovered for about 2 min and then just faded away.	02/18/2003
Open	04/25/2003 21:00	Hot Springs	SD	USA	Light	5 points of light moiving quickly and erratically at different times	04/25/2003
Open	08/21/2002 22:30	Sisseton	SD	USA	Light	Intelligent white light floating above us. Took off when it knew we seen it.	05/06/2003
Open	08/18/2003 23:00	Rockerville	SD	USA	Triangle	two triangles in the night sky	08/25/2003
Open	08/30/2003 23:15	Sisseton	SD	USA	Formation	Strange jet fighter formations in the middle of the night.	09/06/2003
Open	09/12/2003 22:20	Vermillion	SD	USA	Rectangle	Darker than night rectangle with dim lights	09/13/2003
Open	07/01/1983 04:00	Strandburg	SD	USA	Formation	Oval multicolored object that had sharp-jagged twinkling lights around it. Green, red and gold lights.	10/18/2003
Open	06/20/1968 22:00	Badlands	SD	USA	Unknown	On clear night two objects make large circle in the sky and disappear at very high speed.	12/23/2003
Open	01/14/2004 05:40	Pickstown	SD	USA	Unknown	Meteorite-like object tracking across the entire sky from east to west moving at a tremendous speed.	01/14/2004
Open	01/13/2004 21:00	Little River	SD	USA	Unknown	orange lights in a L shape	01/17/2004
Open	09/15/1968 00:00	White Owl	SD	USA	Fireball	UFO analyzes missile site.	01/20/2004
Open	02/14/2004 20:17	New Effington	SD	USA	Unknown	Explosion in the sky	02/15/2004
Open	02/24/2004 18:20	Spearfish Canyon	SD	USA	Circle	At aproximatly 18:20 Hrs. I was working outside in our parking lot and happened to look up at the moon and the bright planet to its low	02/25/2004
Open	06/25/1966 21:30	Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB)	SD	USA	Disk	UFOs visited our Minuteman ICBMS during the summer of 1966 and I was there.	04/10/2004
Open	04/15/1966 13:30	Interior (near)	SD	USA	Disk	entire episode is too involved to list all details here. Experienced magnetic anomily, also.	06/05/2004
Open	06/10/2004 23:28	Sturgis	SD	USA	Unknown	A ufo consisting of 2 white lights moving north easterly over I90 near Piedmont, SD. Sighted on June 10, 2004	06/15/2004
Open	05/07/2003 12:37	Oglala	SD	USA	Circle	the objects were sighted at 12:37 pm and it was a bunch of them it appeared to be 11 to 15 and they were siraling altogether in one big	07/15/2004
Open	07/26/2004 22:27	Watertown	SD	USA	Light	A bright light similar to a very bright star, flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast at a constant speed.	07/26/2004
Open	09/02/2004 22:43	Sisseton	SD	USA	Fireball	"Armageddon" or "Deep Impact" type fireball cruises over South Dakota	09/02/2004
Open	12/10/1995 05:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Circle	It was very early morning and I was delivering papers. I heard a very large BOOM!!! and everything turned blue. I looked toward the noi	09/08/2004
Open	09/12/2004 01:00	Lead	SD	USA	Flash	light in the sky flashed once approx. every 2 minutes but never moved. Stayed in one location and flashed once every 2 minutes!	09/13/2004
Open	11/11/2004 12:30	Sioux Falls (near)	SD	USA	Light	My husband and I were driving south on Interstate 29 going to Sioux Falls. When we were about 6-7 miles north, of the city, I was looki	11/12/2004
Open	11/19/2004 23:00	Salem/Montrose (between)	SD	USA	Light	Light explodes in sky above Canistota, SD. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor from the Leonid meteor shower. PD))	11/22/2004
Open	11/14/2004 01:14	Dupree VOR (in-flight)	SD	USA	Light	White pulsing light	12/02/2004
Open	04/15/1995 00:00	Newell area	SD	USA		120' fake silo hovers low	02/16/2005
Open	09/27/1997 23:00	Egan	SD	USA	Other	The Weirdest Thing I Have Ever Seen	02/17/2005
Open	04/15/1897 00:00	Howard/Artesian	SD	USA		Object descends and follows locomotive	02/28/2005
Open	06/13/1993 15:20	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Fireball	Fireball that changed color and split into 3 equal parts	03/27/2005
Open	04/20/2005 21:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Triangle	the object was hanging in the air above us for about 15-20 secodns and flew away very slowly...	06/19/2005
Open	05/28/2005 21:30	Eagle Butte	SD	USA	Light	a large bright light was taking our picture.	06/26/2005
Open	10/11/1994 00:00	Hot Springs and Custer	SD	USA	Triangle	October 11, 1994--Hot Springs/Custer--triangle alerts dogs/ MUFON investigator witnesses	07/16/2005
Open	07/04/1947 00:00	Sioux Falls	SD	USA		Narrow light colored object spotted in Sioux Falls on July 4, 1947	07/18/2005
Open	07/05/1947 00:00	Dell Rapids	SD	USA		Round silver dinner plates seen in Dell Rapids area on July 5, 1947	07/18/2005
Open	08/27/2005 20:15	Mitchell	SD	USA	Circle	I simply don't know what they were.	08/28/2005
Open	09/20/2005 22:00	Burke (north of)	SD	USA	Other	Air Force bombing runs mistaken for UFO's	09/26/2005
Open	07/21/1994 22:00	Hot Springs	SD	USA	Light	Two silent stars hover; vanish when jet nears	09/29/2005
Open	11/15/2005 19:00	Huron	SD	USA	Light	bright light over southdakota home	11/17/2005
Open	02/09/1992 21:30	Rapid City area	SD	USA		Extra Bright Phony Plane Drifts	01/02/2006
Open	02/04/2006 19:30	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Triangle	Triangle object without colored or blinking lights, shortly later a bright shere shaped object was scene.	02/04/2006
Open	06/30/1976 01:00	Cactus Flat	SD	USA	Fireball	Fiery oranges red object hovering over Minuteman II Launch Facility alarms sounded security team dispatched to investigate.	02/08/2006
Open	11/15/2004 20:30	Rapid City/ Box Elder	SD	USA	Triangle	Saw tri-angle lights under dark body while driving west on I-90.	03/01/2006
Open	04/04/2006 20:20	Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Unknown	Unk light hovering for a moment then sped away	04/04/2006
Open	09/22/1973 15:00	Philip	SD	USA	Disk	Saucer craft landed near us.	04/23/2006
Open	06/15/1997 22:00	Eagle Butte	SD	USA	Light	lighted crafts seem to take notice of us	07/14/2006
Open	06/25/1966 21:30	Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB)	SD	USA	Unknown	I KNOW THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED, AND I BELIEVE HE IS TELLING IT THE WAY HE KNOW'S IT.	08/11/2006
Open	05/01/2000 23:00	Red Shirt (near)	SD	USA	Light	A flying object that flew parallel with me caused electronic effects and a truly weird experience	08/13/2006
Open	09/01/2006 23:45	Rock Hill	SD	USA	Sphere	Bright spherical object was moving from south to north at about 5,000 feet in altitude; very high rate of speed. Size of the object wa	09/04/2006
Open	08/03/1998 00:30	Midland	SD	USA	Unknown	Red ball of light exploding into many small white lights with one strobing along highway.	10/28/2006
Open	10/30/2006 23:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Triangle	Triangular Dark Silent Craft Over Downtown Rapid City, South Dakota	10/31/2006
Open	10/29/2006 22:20	Spearfish	SD	USA	Chevron	The object first appeared in the north sky. My attention was drawn to what initially appeared to be a shooting star. The first thing	11/02/2006
Open	10/17/1998 11:30	Bridgewater	SD	USA	Other	Broad daylight , clear sky, very strangely moving object-like a child skipping rope	11/18/2006
Open	05/22/2006 14:22	Deadwood	SD	USA	Disk	Saucer type UFO hovering over Crazy Horse Monument captured on digital camera.	12/04/2006
Open	03/15/2004 18:00	Rapid City	SD	USA	Triangle	It hovered until we stopped like it was waiting for someone to see it.	12/30/2006
Open	09/27/1981 15:30	Keystone	SD	USA	Oval	UFO photographed near Keystone, South Dakota.	04/04/2007
Open	12/16/2003 02:00	Webster	SD	USA	Egg	ME AND A FEW FRIENDS SAW AN EGG SHAPED CRAFT ON A COUNTY ROAD. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))	04/05/2007
Open	02/25/2005 05:47	Rapid City	SD	USA	Light	landing of unidentified object	04/25/2007
Open	03/03/2007 08:00	Oglala	SD	USA	Unknown	" A bright light was seen in the sky and it came down and went over the house and disappeared, no sound"	06/15/2007
Open	07/04/2007 23:00	Vermillion	SD	USA	Light	I saw these lightrs high in space every 5 minutes for about 20 minutes.	08/07/2007
Open	07/13/1998 00:00	McCook Lake	SD	USA	Unknown	Four white lights, 60 - 80 mph, completely silent in close proximity.	09/26/2007
Open	10/04/2007 23:35	Rapid City	SD	USA	Cigar	Silver cigar shape craft over north rapid	10/04/2007
Open	10/22/2007 20:00	Hurley (west of)	SD	USA	Other	multiple bright lights and objects that would alternate and fade in and out in a row	10/23/2007
Open	10/25/2007 17:00	Rapid City, Sioux Falls	SD	USA	Unknown	Object moving horizontally across South Dakota sky	10/25/2007
Open	10/24/2007 21:05		SD	USA	Orb	Several orbs over South Dakota farmland.	10/25/2007
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation