South Dakota UFO Sightings in 2001

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T WAS SHAPED LIKE NOTHING IVE EVER SAW, AND IT WAS SCARY AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME. This is the shape . , , , , , , .

IT HAD BLUE, GREEN, RED, WHITE LIGHTS ALL AROUND THE EDGES OF IT. AND THAT CAR DOWN THE STREET FOR SOME REASON STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. ((NUFORC Note: Raster diagrams do not survive the transfer from e-mail to a database.

PD)).

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I have never seen anything like this before. It kind of scared me. I was looking up into the sky looking for the space station that was was to pass over.

I then seen somthing that at firt looked like a gagle of geese flying in a "V". I then saw a streamer like thing, and thought that it looks like a tail of a shooting star. It then hit me that I was not looking at anything I have ever seen before.

It looked like a arrow flying through the air about 150 to 200 yards in the air, and thare was now sound from the thing at all. I dont know what I saw but if somone may know I would sur like to know.

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many light objects flying around in an area looking to the soutwest, i saw something that i thought was maybe fireworks then noticed that it was light objects flying around an area about 30 degrees above the horizon they would sometimes appear to chase each other but mostly in a random pattern they would fly at a high rate of speed and then change direction at the same rate without hesitation---after about 45 min a slow plane or helicopter came from the north over the area--it had two bright large red lights on each end of it and a strobe in the middle--after that, we saw the objects no more. the plane flew off to the south and southeast toward ellsworth air force base---we lost track of it becase of trees. thanks.

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Bright oval light moving west to east near the North Star I noticed a brighter than normal light near the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper. It was moving South to North. It was moving faster than a satellite does.

It grew dimmer as it moved and disappeared after 3-4 seconds. There was no sound. About 10 minutes later I noticed the same kind of light moving at about the same speed near the North star.

It grew slightly brighter as it moved east. It appeared to slow as it continued to move east/southeast. It eventually stopped movement but it also grew dimmer until I could no longer see it.

There was no noise. Estimated time lapse was 2-3 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: We observe that the descriptions of the objects are somewhat reminiscent of orbitting objects.

They do naturally dim and disappear from sight as they pass into the Earth's shadow. PD)).

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On a camping trip, I saw what I've been waiting for all my life. I was camping,about 15 miles out of town. I was looking at the stars to the west, and realized that one was moving.

It was moving down really slowly, and then it would stoot back up from where it started so fast that it looked like it disappeared and then reapeared. It did this for a long time. Then I noticed another object, that looked like a star also, coming right for the first object that I saw.

As it drew closer, it became brighter and brighter. It seemed to happed in slow motion. When it got to the other object, the other object shot down to the point that it was originally was going down to almost instantaniously.

The object that was coming toward it got really bright and disappeared. The object stayed here about 10 minutes, then started moving to the north at the same speed that the object that was coming toward it was going. About 4 to 5 seconds later, it was gone.

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A slow red moving object, going about 3 miles per hours, leaving Springfield going towards Tyndall. It was very silent,it seem to notice us and come back to us we then got back in the car and didnt look back. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

Possible hoax, we wonder. Witness fails to provide contact information. PD)).