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Date / Time City State Shape Duration Summary Posted
3/24/08 22:15 Sioux Falls SD Triangle 30 sec to 1 min Large triangular delta wing looking 10 to 15 lights not bright dull and dim it moved very fast. 3/31/08
2/19/08 17:15 Sioux Falls SD Oval 20 minutes Two oval objects appeared in the sky right where unmarked planes made an X con-trail!! ((NUFORC Note: Contrails?? PD)) 3/4/08
1/31/08 00:00 Mission SD Disk 6 hours Very scary experience that ever happened to me. 2/14/08
11/19/07 06:30 Kennebec SD Triangle 5 minutes Bright triangular white light with two much smaller circular lights that flew with it. ((NUFORC Note: Overflight of ISS. PD)) 11/28/07
10/29/07 08:30 Sioux Falls SD Oval 2 minutes Black, oval, reflective object seen gliding through the daytime sky. 11/28/07
10/25/07 17:00 Rapid City, Sioux Falls SD Unknown
Object moving horizontally across South Dakota sky 11/28/07
10/25/07 08:00 Sioux Falls, SD SD Unknown 15 minutes Ufo entered atmosphere and hovered over city. videotaped by Keloland tv, Rapid City Web cam. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail. PD)) 11/28/07
10/24/07 21:05
SD Sphere 30sec Several orbs over South Dakota farmland. 11/28/07
10/24/07 20:25 Turkey Ridge SD Rectangle 3 minutes 5 bright orange square lights over Southeast SD 11/28/07
10/22/07 20:30 Stephan SD Light 2 hours Bright orange lights dropping , what looked like flares? 11/28/07
10/22/07 20:00 Hurley (west of) SD Other 30 min multiple bright lights and objects that would alternate and fade in and out in a row 11/28/07
10/20/07 21:30 Ft. Thompson SD Light 1week same time weird lights over ft thompson sd 3/4/08
10/15/07 21:00 Mission SD Light 10 minutes The night sky was clear and the stars were shining bright, when we saw this bright orange light. 3/4/08
10/4/07 23:35 Rapid City SD Cigar 15 seconds Silver cigar shape craft over north rapid 10/8/07
7/4/07 23:00 Vermillion SD Light 20 minutes I saw these lightrs high in space every 5 minutes for about 20 minutes. 8/7/07
3/3/07 08:00 Oglala SD Unknown 10:00 min " A bright light was seen in the sky and it came down and went over the house and disappeared, no sound" 8/7/07
10/30/06 23:00 Rapid City SD Triangle 10 seconds Triangular Dark Silent Craft Over Downtown Rapid City, South Dakota 12/7/06
10/29/06 22:20 Spearfish SD Chevron 4 - 5 seconds The object first appeared in the north sky. My attention was drawn to what initially appeared to be a shooting star. The first thing 12/7/06
9/1/06 23:45 Rock Hill SD Sphere 3 secs 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 10/30/06
5/22/06 14:22 Deadwood SD Disk instantaneous Saucer type UFO hovering over Crazy Horse Monument captured on digital camera. 12/7/06
4/4/06 20:20 Sioux Falls SD Unknown 1-3min Unk light hovering for a moment then sped away 5/15/06
2/4/06 19:30 Sioux Falls SD Triangle 1 minute Triangle object without colored or blinking lights, shortly later a bright shere shaped object was scene. 2/14/06
11/15/05 19:00 Huron SD Light eating dinner bright light over southdakota home 12/16/05
9/20/05 22:00 Burke (north of) SD Other 40 seconds Air Force bombing runs mistaken for UFO's 10/11/05
8/27/05 20:15 Mitchell SD Circle 4 min. I simply don't know what they were. 9/2/05
5/28/05 21:30 Eagle Butte SD Light 4.5sec a large bright light was taking our picture. 7/5/05
4/20/05 21:00 Rapid City SD Triangle 1-2 min the object was hanging in the air above us for about 15-20 secodns and flew away very slowly... 6/20/05
2/25/05 05:47 Rapid City SD Light 3.0 seconds landing of unidentified object 4/27/07
11/19/04 23:00 Salem/Montrose (between) SD Light
Light explodes in sky above Canistota, SD. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor from the Leonid meteor shower. PD)) 12/3/04
11/15/04 20:30 Rapid City/ Box Elder SD Triangle 10 Min Saw tri-angle lights under dark body while driving west on I-90. 3/11/06
11/14/04 01:14 Dupree VOR (in-flight) SD Light 4 minutes White pulsing light 12/3/04
11/11/04 12:30 Sioux Falls (near) SD Light approx. 5 mins 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 12/3/04
9/12/04 01:00 Lead SD Flash 30 minutes light in the sky flashed once approx. every 2 minutes but never moved. Stayed in one location and flashed once every 2 minutes! 9/29/04
9/2/04 22:43 Sisseton SD Fireball 5 seconds "Armageddon" or "Deep Impact" type fireball cruises over South Dakota 9/9/04
7/26/04 22:27 Watertown SD Light 3 or 4 minutes A bright light similar to a very bright star, flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast at a constant speed. 8/11/04
6/10/04 23:28 Sturgis SD Unknown 15 seconds A ufo consisting of 2 white lights moving north easterly over I90 near Piedmont, SD. Sighted on June 10, 2004 6/18/04
3/15/04 18:00 Rapid City SD Triangle 8min It hovered until we stopped like it was waiting for someone to see it. 2/1/07
2/24/04 18:20 Spearfish Canyon SD Circle 15 SECONDS 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 3/2/04
2/14/04 20:17 New Effington SD Unknown 2 seconds Explosion in the sky 3/2/04
1/14/04 05:40 Pickstown SD Unknown <10 seconds Meteorite-like object tracking across the entire sky from east to west moving at a tremendous speed. 1/17/04
1/13/04 21:00 Little River SD Unknown 10 seconds orange lights in a L shape 1/17/04
12/16/03 02:00 Webster SD Egg none ME AND A FEW FRIENDS SAW AN EGG SHAPED CRAFT ON A COUNTY ROAD. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) 4/27/07
9/12/03 22:20 Vermillion SD Rectangle 5-7 seconds Darker than night rectangle with dim lights 9/17/03
8/30/03 23:15 Sisseton SD Formation 4 Minutes Strange jet fighter formations in the middle of the night. 9/9/03
8/18/03 23:00 Rockerville SD Triangle 5 min. two triangles in the night sky 8/28/03
5/7/03 12:37 Oglala SD 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 7/25/04
4/25/03 21:00 Hot Springs SD Light 30 Min 5 points of light moiving quickly and erratically at different times 4/27/03
2/12/03 06:35 Huron SD Triangle 2 min A triangular shape light that hovered for about 2 min and then just faded away. 3/21/03
1/3/03 02:29 Ft. Thompson SD Light 10-15 mins freaky mann........................................... 3/21/03
12/7/02 23:30 Sioux Falls SD Teardrop 1.5 seconds Have seen numerous objects over sky north of Sioux Falls in past few months. 3/21/03
12/7/02 23:15 Sioux Falls SD Teardrop 1 1/2 seconds 12/7/02 - Tear shaped white light that shot straight up out of sight. 12/23/02
9/6/02 20:30 Spearfish SD Cigar 1-2 minutes I saw a cigar shaped, glowing blue object travelling at a high rate of speed. 9/28/02
8/21/02 22:30 Sisseton SD Light 1 min Intelligent white light floating above us. Took off when it knew we seen it. 5/9/03
7/28/02 22:00 Rapid City SD Light appr 5 min A single point of light, similar to a satellite, was seen moving erratically across the night sky over the Black Hills of SD. 7/30/02
7/12/02 01:20 Rapid City SD Light 2 minutes spooky light that shines at you but tries to act like a star in a constellation afterwards. 8/16/02
2/18/02 01:00 Sioux Falls SD Triangle 30 seconds Grouping of rectangular or triangular objects, hovering, dancing around each other, absolutely silent, then rapid accleration. 3/19/02
12/31/01 21:37 Mission SD Unknown 21:37-23:34(estimate) T WAS SHAPED LIKE NOTHING IVE EVER SAW, AND IT WAS SCARY AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME. 5/14/02
10/15/01 19:35 Rapid City SD Triangle 30 seconds I have never seen anything like this before. It kind of scared me. 11/20/01
8/30/01 21:00 Rapid City SD Light 45 min many light objects flying around in an area 10/12/01
8/1/01 23:15 Iroquois SD Oval 2-3 minutes Bright oval light moving west to east near the North Star 8/5/01
6/28/01 23:00 Spearfish SD Light 45min On a camping trip, I saw what I've been waiting for all my life. 8/5/01
6/8/01 Springfield SD Unknown
((HOAX??)) A slow red moving object,going about 3miles per hours,leaving SpringField going towards Tyndall. 11/28/07
11/1/00 21:00 Mitchell SD Other 1 minute +/- It looked like a flying canoe. 8/5/01
10/21/00 12:00 DeSmet SD Unknown Not sure 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 12/2/00
9/27/00 20:35 Rapid City SD Light 1 minute Looked for and found a satellite, as well as a UFO 12/2/00
5/29/00 01:00 Sioux Falls SD Fireball 5 sec 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 6/6/00
5/1/00 23:00 Red Shirt (near) SD Light 3 minutes A flying object that flew parallel with me caused electronic effects and a truly weird experience 10/30/06
8/11/99 17:30 Hwy. 90 SD Triangle 7 hours A cloud appeared in the sky, huge, oval in shape, emitting the most amazing magnetic field, shooting lightening out in short spikes aro 8/30/99
7/4/99 21:00 Pine Ridge SD Light 15-20 secs steady light yellow orangish light moving from southwest to middle of the night sky turning sharp and headed due north. 3/6/01
10/17/98 11:30 Bridgewater SD Other 5 minutes Broad daylight , clear sky, very strangely moving object-like a child skipping rope 12/7/06
8/3/98 00:30 Midland SD Unknown 45minutes Red ball of light exploding into many small white lights with one strobing along highway. 10/30/06
8/1/98 23:00 Pierre SD Unknown 10 seconds Red and green lights moving with no sound over Pierre, in central South Dakota, seen in 1998 now finally reported. 3/4/08
7/13/98 00:00 McCook Lake SD Unknown 9 seconds Four white lights, 60 - 80 mph, completely silent in close proximity. 10/8/07
7/7/98 00:30 Marty SD Egg about 2 minutes Amber egg-shaped craft,ascended at slow speed. 10/12/01
7/6/98 17:40 Rapid City SD Other 10 Seconds Looked towards a thunderstorm approaching from the west. First saw a bright shape in the sky in the northwest direction. The light wa 11/21/98
5/18/98 23:30 Rapid City SD Other 30-60 seconds 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 1/28/99
11/17/97 02:00 Sioux Falls SD other 3 minutes 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 1/28/99
9/27/97 23:00 Egan SD Other 30 minutes The Weirdest Thing I Have Ever Seen 2/22/05
6/15/97 22:00 Eagle Butte SD Light almost 45 mins. lighted crafts seem to take notice of us 7/16/06
4/18/97 04:20 Hartford SD
3 sec. 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! 11/2/99
8/19/96 22:30 Spencer SD Unknown 22 minutes Alien crafts-Eastern South Dakota- late summer early fall 1996 8/16/02
5/13/96 20:15 Black Hills SD
35 sec. Man witnesses bizarre silvery disc, "as long as 2 school buses," hover, then streak away. (Phone line goes dead. No other data.) 11/2/99
12/10/95 05:00 Rapid City SD Circle 15 sec 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 9/9/04
11/20/95 06:15 Belle Fourche SD
2 sec. MUFON State Dir. relays rpt: Postal empl. heading W on highway witnesses very large white w/ green tail streak vert. to horizon. 11/2/99
9/1/95 10:30 Eagle Butte SD Light 3 minutes The unexplained bright blue light. 1/11/02
7/25/95 20:30 Marion SD
4 min. Woman w/ nephew & niece witness "long, white thing w/ a red tail" streak from E to S horizon. It was shaped like rocket. 11/2/99
6/25/95 22:45 Sioux Falls SD

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. 11/2/99
4/15/95 Newell area SD

120' fake silo hovers low 2/22/05
10/11/94 Hot Springs and Custer SD Triangle
October 11, 1994--Hot Springs/Custer--triangle alerts dogs/ MUFON investigator witnesses 9/2/05
7/21/94 22:00 Hot Springs SD Light ten minutes Two silent stars hover; vanish when jet nears 10/11/05
1/19/94 19:00 Summit SD Disk 10 minutes Large Silver Disk explodes over SD Antenna Field.... 8/28/02
6/13/93 15:20 Sioux Falls SD Fireball 30 seconds fireball that changed color and split into 3 equal parts 5/24/05
7/28/92 02:00 Sioux Falls SD Light 30 min 3 Moving Star Sized Lites Grace South Dakota Nite Sky 8/28/02
2/9/92 21:30 Rapid City area SD

Extra Bright Phony Plane Drifts 2/14/06
9/15/87 21:00 Yankton SD Triangle 5-6 seconds silent isosceles triangle shaped mirage-like UFO with no lights 12/23/02
7/8/84 23:00 Martin SD Oval 5 minutes Oval-shaped craft, large as a football field, lights around parameter, first looked like star, silent, fast 3/31/08
7/1/83 04:00 Strandburg SD Formation 2-3 minutes Oval multicolored object that had sharp-jagged twinkling lights around it. Green, red and gold lights. 10/31/03
9/27/81 15:30 Keystone SD Oval 3-8 seconds UFO photographed near Keystone, South Dakota. 4/27/07
5/22/79 21:00 Baltic SD Triangle 25 Unidentified glowing orbs 2/14/08
6/30/76 01:00 Cactus Flat SD Fireball 1.5 hours Fiery oranges red object hovering over Minuteman II Launch Facility alarms sounded security team dispatched to investigate. 2/14/06
9/22/73 15:00 Philip SD Disk one hour Saucer craft landed near us. 5/15/06
7/15/72 Sioux Falls SD Cylinder 1 min.? A secret kept for too many years by a young boy 12/23/02
10/5/68 21:30 Nunda SD Disk 15 minutes My uncle had a close encounter in 1968 3/21/03
9/15/68 White Owl SD Fireball 5 hrs. UFO analyzes missile site. 1/22/04
7/20/68 15:00 Zell (farm outside of) SD Disk minutes 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 12/16/99
6/20/68 22:00 Badlands SD Unknown 1 min 30 sec On clear night two objects make large circle in the sky and disappear at very high speed. 1/17/04
6/25/66 21:30 Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB) SD Disk several hours UFOs visited our Minuteman ICBMS during the summer of 1966 and I was there. 4/27/04
6/25/66 21:30 Rapid City (Ellsworth AFB) SD Unknown 2-4 DAYS I KNOW THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED, AND I BELIEVE HE IS TELLING IT THE WAY HE KNOW'S IT. 10/30/06
4/15/66 13:30 Interior (near) SD Disk 15min entire episode is too involved to list all details here. Experienced magnetic anomily, also. 6/18/04
11/15/56 18:30 Aberdeen SD Circle 2:00 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. 8/5/01
7/5/47 Dell Rapids SD

Round silver dinner plates seen in Dell Rapids area on July 5, 1947 9/2/05
7/4/47 Sioux Falls SD

Narrow light colored object spotted in Sioux Falls on July 4, 1947 9/2/05
4/15/97 Howard/Artesian SD

Object descends and follows locomotive 5/11/05
7/?/98 22:00 Sturgis SD Triangle 8 seconds triangle shaped craft flies over campground in sturgis south dakota 4/2/99