All Reported UFO Sightings in South Dakota

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Stationary object seen hovering with no movement from the wind. Object shimmered out of vision, reappeared, the shimmered out again. 10 ft wide, black triangular object seen near power lines easy of the interstate north of Sioux Falls SD.

Object did not move, even in high winds. Object shimmered, then disappeared from view. Object reappeared ~100 yards away, was visible, the again shimmered, briefly going between visible and invisible, before disappearing.

Myself and my traveling companion saw the object. We were sober, listening to a podcast. I enjoy pointing out various types of birds while driving.

This was absolutely not a bird, did not look like a quadcopter, was not moving forward/backward, or up and down.

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Very large chevron descending. At around 2:45 am we seen a very large (building size) chevron shaped craft appear out of nowhere a few hundred feet up on a descent path down over the highway. We have seen these craft several times before and they appear to be following a flight path.

The craft was extremely large and a clearly defined Chevron with squared off flat sides. The craft appear as a hole in the sky and are defined by shimmering edges, this was the closest we have seen one enough to make out geometric detail in the shimmering. The craft was around 500 meters away and did not make a sound, no visible light except the edges shimmering.

As the craft descended down behind the buildings we jumped in our car and were around back of the business in 30 seconds but it was not there on the other side. Earlier tonight we seen 2 smaller chevron craft of the same type just smaller following the same path, in the past we have seen a large one of this type on the same flight path only it turned east to avoid a air plane taking off from the air port to the north. These craft seam incredibly camouflaged and it’s really only possible to easily spot them against a back lit sky as they seam to absorb light, for the second time in a row we attempted to get them on video but when we attempt to film them the shimmering cause the camera to loose focus and go crazy with artifacts.

Edit: I’m not sure what’s going on with my compasses, I have 3 and they are all giving me different direction readings but I believe the craft was west of me moving to the north over Sioux Falls.

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Three circular lights that were dim, and one single circular bright light. There were four objects in total. Three of which appeared to be dim circles of white, and one singular circle that was bright.

They were grouped together for a split second. The three dim objects split further, going all directions: NW, NE and S. The brighter circle individually went South.

After the objects went in different directions, they were not longer to be seen. It appeared that the dim lights moved at a slower pace than the bright light did. The sky was thirty minutes past sunset.

Although not completely dark, it was dark enough to notice. No sounds were heard.

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Low flying silent craft with stealth coating. At 1025 pm I pulled into the Walmart parking lot on Louis Ave Sioux Falls, A large chevron shaped craft was moving at a very low altitude (100ft to 150ft) approximately 300ft in front of me. The craft was flying slow probably about 30 mph just clearing the top of Walmart, the craft was about the size of a couple city buses and moved with zero noise, the skin of the craft seamed to be coated in a light absorbing material and appeared as a black chevron moving against the back lit sky with a sort of shimmer around the edges, the craft itself had no visible light what so ever it seamed to absorb light, if it were not for the city lit sky you would never see or hear it, because of the city lights it appeared as a chevron shaped hole in space.

As it crossed the store heading north it banked east presumably to avoid a air plane that just took off from the air port on the north side of the city, by time I parked my car to get a better look it had moved into a darker part of the sky and was no longer visible against the back drop of the night sky.

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Large Boomerang shape UFO with no lights flew over our house I was standing outside in our backyard waiting for my dog to go to the bathroom when a large boomerang shape UFO with no lights glided over our house. It was dark and the full moon was out so the sky was somewhat Lite. The object was grey in color and appeared to be smooth with no sound and no lights.

It just glided over the house flying south. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and yelled for my husband but by the time he came out it was gone.

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2 lines of green, constant lights I went outside for a cigarette around 2005 and looked up at sky like I always do. I saw 2 lines of green lights moving fast across the sky from west to east. At first I thought it might have been a meteor with a tale but I saw it was dozens of individual lights, green & constant.

Staggered in random groups from 1 to 3 in a row, then space, then another group. Both lines different in groupings and spacing, reminding me of piano player tape. The line of lights moved very fast & w/o sound.

As the got farther east they began disappearing from the beginning of lines to end but all at one spot in sky. Seemed like they were entering a tunnel or turning off lights when reaching a certain spot. Sky was clear & lights were much brighter than stars in sky.

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Bright orbs Starting around 8:30pm on 9/15 and 9/16 multiple uap sightings that were sporadic in a 1-1.5 hour period. They start as orbs through the sky sometimes multiple moving together non blinking lights and we are in a rural area with not much air traffic.

They are traveling at a high rate of speed but will fade out. What really baffles me on 9/15 there was a string of blue lights around 10+ that were traveling through the sky in an upward motion but sideways (completely different look than starlink) they were spaced far apart but consecutively following one another in a straight pattern. I went out the evening of 9/16 and witnessed the same thing with multiple orbs traveling through the sky around 5 individual ones and again saw a string of crafts traveling straight up in the sky coming from what looked like bottom traveling up one after another that lasted 5minutes.

I don’t know what’s going on in our area lately but it’s incredibly exciting and if it continues happening I think this is worth investigating.

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Watching sunset on computer shortly after cigar shape appears I was watching the sunset on my computer of Spearfish S Dakota weather cam, shortly after sunset a cigar shape appears it was metallic and moved slowly from left to right on my screen. My husband and I watched until it got to the end of my screen. I was able to back up and watch again that's when I started to video and take pictures.

There were no flashing lights like a plane would have, in fact no lights at all. This took place at 9:15 central standard time that's my time. I believe that Spearfish is an hour behind us.

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Straight line irregular spacing 500’ long illumination the sky and tree tops 9:45 pm as we were sitting in the driveway, from the west came a string of oval shaped objects numbering 12-15 illuminating the sky and tree top’s approximately 1500’ above the trees, passed in front of us moving towards the east. We observed them for 12-15 seconds then they just dimmed and all vanished and was gone. Not Starlink satellites.

Starlink is 340 miles up. Too low to be and Starlink! We would have been able to observe them traveling eastward out of sight. They just disappeared in front of us.

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Low flying string of white lights 12000 to 15000 feet heading west to east. Witnessed for 10-12 seconds then faded and disappeared We witnessed a string of low flying bright white lights 15-18 of them at low altitudes for 10-12 seconds moving from the west to east direction at 9:45 pm on a clear flawless night. Once they were in front of us just above tree top angle approximately 12-15000’ they all vanished on after another.

These were not Starlink satellites. They were to low and they vanished like some type of cloaking device was activated. If they were satellites we could have watched them travel to the eastern sky.

We took pictures and a video of them but they did not record to the cell phone. No images appeared on the phone’s camera. No sound was heard.

No other aircraft in the area. Crafts we’re heading in the direction of Ellsworth Airforce Base outside do Rapid City SD.

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3 lights in sky at different intervals Saw orangeish yellow light (not incredibly bright, but noticeable) moved from the west to east- about 2 Minutes later I saw another light, same color and brightness, go in the same direction. It seemed lower than what an airplane flies at. Then a few minutes later, I saw the 3rd light with same color and brightness move from the north to southwest.

Lights did not disappear or blink from what I could tell. Steady light. It was slower than a shooting star, where I could walk on my deck and follow it.

It was fast but not incredibly fast.

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Light was there and gone. I was looking up at the sky and facing south, there was a light like a star, I don't know why but I kind of stared up there for about 5 minutes and it just diasappeared, no clouds at that time it was clear. It's probably nothing but thought I would report it, it was not falling debris or starlink like the pictures.

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We saw round 3 lights moving through the sky above our area two of which performed movements an airplane could not. About 9:30-9:40 pm, as I was looking south at the rising full moon in a clear night sky from my back porch, I saw a bright white light cross the sky, coming toward me from south to north; it passed over my home and continued north to slightly north-east. It was moving fast, steady, level, bright and silent, and was not as high as airplanes usually are.

It was of the brightness of a car headlight, but not as large. I called my husband to come, but it was gone before he could see it. We went into the street to look for it.

As we were, we both saw two more lights appear just under the star Arcturus, which was fairly high in the sky to the south-west. The first light was heading east and a second was following behind it from a short distance. Again, both lights were round, bright, steady without flashing, moving fast and silent.

They were more like the surrounding stars in brightness, and further away and less bright than the first light that passed over our house, and they were travelling faster than the airplanes that I commonly see overhead. We are in the flightpath of airplanes from the Rapid City Regional Airport, and planes are common sights and sounds. We are also two blocks from our city's hospital and under the Life Flight helicopter's path.

These were not airplanes or helicopters. The second light was appearing to catch up to the first when it suddenly took a fast 90 degree turn to the south. The turn was smooth and tight and the light did not slow down.

As it was turning, the first light came to a stop and hung there for almost half a minute. It looked remarkably like one of the background stars as it did. Had it not been moving, I would have taken it for a star.

The night, at that time, was crystal clear. We soon lost the light that turned south into the distance, and the first light resumed its eastward course. We were able to keep eyes on it for almost half a minute before we lost it in the glare of the full moon.

However, as it resumed its course, it seemed to slow and speed up a couple of times, as well as to swerve once, as though something were in its way. We saw nothing, but there was a definite change and then correction to its course. We went inside and my husband checked the flight path of the ISS.

It was reported as being in Florida at this time. I have seen these same kind of lights several times in this same part of the sky over the last few years, but this is the first time that someone has been with me as a witness. I am a night person and I love the night sky.

I look at it often and am interested in the stars. I am not a UFO person, but a curious person as to what it is that I so often see. My husband mostly humors me, he would rather be inside watching tv, but last night he was disturbed by the two lights that he saw.

These lights have always been the same round, white, bright lights that don't change shape or size, that move quickly without sound and that don't flash. They resemble stars and when they are not moving, they are difficult to notice. During the last full lunar eclipse visible in my area, which I observed in it's entirety from my driveway, I also observed two of these lights.

They were stationary on the southern horizon, and I was puzzling because I didn't recognize what stars they were, when they both began to accelerate straight up into the night sky. I watched them for a full minute as they crossed paths and disappeared. It is my opinion that they can remain unnoticed when they are stationary, and once they move, they are visible for such a short time that there is nothing to do but watch and be amazed.

I personally look up, I keep an eye to the sky because I love the ever changing aspect of the sky both day and night. I always have, and so I see things most people don't simply because they don't pay attention. I think there is more to see that we are aware simply because we don't look.

I am also an artist, and I look to everything with an artist's eye and because I want to see. Because I look, almost 20 years ago, I had an opportunity to observe a round, front-lighted, metallic object about the size of a basketball cross low over the roof of my neighbor's house and continue west until I lost it. It could not have been more than 20-30 feet from me.

It too moved steadily, on a level course, silent and unflashing. I don't talk to people about it because I am tired of being made fun of, but I think it was significant. It was not a drone.

It had no visible propulsion or wings or tail. No intake or exhaust. It left no wake or trail.

It was dead silent. I don't know what it was or why it would have been in a small neighborhood in Rapid City, South Dakota, but it was. I would talk about it to someone who didn't make fun of me, though I don't know what that would prove.

It came and it went, there was no time to grab a camera, no time to draw attention to it, it passed with a sense of purpose and was gone. It did have to navigate it's way around several trees as I watched. I have no idea what such a thing could be.

But had I not paused for a moment to look up, I would never have known it was there. Our backgrounds. My husband is an honorably retired member of the USAF.

He's not particularly imaginative and couldn't care less about things like UFOs. I am college educated, had my own graphic design studio, am an active artist of realism, not a sci fi fan, am interested in almost everything, and I am a Jehovah's Witness. My faith places a very high priority on honesty and most in it are very conservative.

Few would even consider the possibility of such a thing as an UFO. For myself, I am simply a curious person interested in the beauty and complexity of this world who keeps her eyes constantly open. If anyone believes me enough to want to talk to me, that's fine.

What we saw was not ground shaking, but real. The straight-traveling lights could be passed off as anything, but few things can stop and hang in the sky, or execute such a perfect 90 degree turn as they did last night. I do think, given the odds of seeing what we have seen, that there must be a lot more up there than we notice.

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Bright white disk Sky was clear and blue so it stood out .I looked up and seen a Bright white spot in the sky and we watched it for about an hour before getting the Binoculars out to look at it.We tried to take a pic of it but it just showed a white disk in a blue sky.

looking through the Binoculars you could see it looked almost like a it had a dark lin across it and it was white in the center with pink on the top and green on the bottom.I think this was from the reflection on the sun on it.it never moved from the spot it was at in the sky so from 7:25 -10:45 it was still in the same place in the sky.

I waited till the sun started to go down to see if the sun would move off of it and it did about 10:20 it stated to fade away and the sun was off of it and you couldn't see it with the naked eye so I looked back with the Binoculars and you could still see it but it was not white anymore.it was a Giant Round Ring and it was not in our atmosphere it was in space.there was a passenger plane flying under it and a star was to it 1:00 o'clock so it gave you a real perspective of just how far it was from the ground.

I watched it for about 30 min. And was Just yelling you have to see this your are not going to belive want I'm looking at.so our of the 4 people that had been watching it only one looked back at it and could find it in the sky and see it as well.

it was mind blowing just how big this thing was and it looked like it had no lines on it just smooth and round just a giant ring setting there in space .it was on an angle.so not looking at it straight on.

Looked for it the next morning before daylight and it was gone….

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Two sets of three lights traveling over our house We were sitting on our back patio on a clear dark night. We saw three light blue lights that looked like a square with one corner missing moving toward and over our house. I would guess a speed of about 50MPH and a height of maybe 2,000 feet but those are just guesses.

Moving approximately from south to the north. There was no sound and no flashing lights like a plane. We thought that was very strange, but it got even more strange when another one just like the first one followed about 15 seconds behind the first one following the same path.

It did not seem to be anything solid, just three lights in formation. The lights looked like a regular star except a little bigger and a little brighter. It was a very quiet night so if the formation had made any sound we would have heard it.

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We saw multiple flying objects moving in a synchronized way back and forth, staying still, and moving at incredible speed out of sight. This morning at about 11:20 AM, my daughters and I saw about 20 very large, low flying, shiny, white objects moving silently back and forth in a synchronized formation above us. My eldest daughter (13yr.

) saw them first, for about 15 seconds, before she ran to tell me. They were flying in a completely unfamiliar fashion. The sky was clear and it was sunny, so we had a sharp view of them.

The objects wove around each other, sometimes holding a position and hovering for a few seconds before rearranging. They also circled around and followed each other at a steady speed. After about two minutes they turned west and then north.

I quickly grabbed my phone to take a picture and ran outside. Unfortunately, by the time I had my camera on, the objects had reached a much higher altitude and started to leave. They flew north so fast that we lost sight of them within seconds.

I just caught them disappearing above our spruce trees. We can't tell if it was a trick of the light, but some appeared to be spheres, some ovals, and one may even have been disc-shaped. My youngest daughter (9 yr.

) believes she saw some of the objects break off and head east, stop, and then vanish in the same direction. The event lasted for 3 minutes at the most. We regret not being able to capture images of the objects more closely and can only send the attached video and 4 photos.

If you move the video slowly right in the beginning you can just make out the white objects right above the tree, disappearing in the distance.

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Two stationery craft We noticed two lights in the western sky from Brandon, so these may have been over the northern part of Sioux Falls. The two lights appeared to be coming from the bottom of two craft that looked to the naked eye like they were boomerang shaped, but zooming in on the camera image, the shapes appear to be more like crosses - very thick (height-wise) crosses that would be several times taller than one would expect a plane to be. We checked back on them several times over the course of about half an hour and they were not moving.

I stepped outside to see if I could hear rotors, but could not. The last time we checked on them, they appeared further away, but were in the same position in the sky and relative to each other. NUFORC Note: Jupiter and Venus.

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It was super fast headed north,then suddenly turned around and headed back south. Speed was unbelievable. It was Like a high flying jet.

starting looking at sky having my last smoke,noticed it moving super fast in Western sky.folkowed going north, say for 60 seconds then the damn thing headed back south with a sudden stop, headed back south,green circle color and shape.

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Bright light in sky during day time, then I see it. It was a grey round flying saucer. I was driving to work and it was glinting in the sun, fully encapsulated.

When it moved a little the left of my windshield, I seen the full object with my very two eyes about 2 miles out. I looked down to grab my phone to record it, but was still driving. When I looked down, and looked back up, it was already gone.

Shortly after I send helicopters flying around very fast, seemingly looking for something, and I presume it was this UFO.

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Its came, floated around and slowly faded I got a small shitty video but its crazy shit!.