South Dakota UFO Sightings in 2019

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Line of evenly spaced white, star-like lights moving in night sky from west to east and disappearing overhead. I was out walking our dog tonight on Christmas Eve. I wanted to see Venus before it disappeared over the horizon.

It was beautiful, and very bright, as it has been the past few weeks. I could also see Orion's belt in the north. It seemed that there were more stars in the sky than usual, but it was particularly clear.

As I turned back towards the house I was amazed to see an entire line of evenly spaced, white, not particularly bright, lights moving roughly west to east in the night sky. They were like little stars. I tried to count them, and estimate there were about 15-20 in all.

The moved slowly, but were perfectly spaced. They seemed to disappear as they approached overhead, as I could not see their formation after that point. They made no sound.

I tried to video them with my phone, but they did not show up. I ran to get my husband, who saw them, and my son, who didn't stay out long enough to see them (it was cold and he didn't have shoes to walk in th! e snow). My daughter, who just arrived home, saw them as she drove through the neighborhood on her way home.

I noticed off to the northeast what appeared to be a red light flying around, and suspected it was a drone. We live near Ellsworth AFB, and drones are frequently seen at night. These lights may have been drones, also, but their formation, perfect alignment, color, brightness, and the fact that they seemed to disappear, would make them much different drones that what we are used to seeing around here.

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On November 22nd about 6 p.m. I went outside looking west and noticed a large batwinged aircraft approaching from the north heading due south moving very fast without any noise, it was about 500 ft up and had a luminous leading edge I tracked it for about 30 seconds as it went out of sight.

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We just left a business on main street heading south toward I-90 when we spotted 2-3 warm white lights in the air south of our location. It appears as if one would dissapear then another one would light up so we couldn't be sure how many there were, it was between 3-5 of them. This only occurred for about 10-20 seconds before they just completely dissapeared.

They were not blinking lights but solid that left with trace.

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I was entering Wind Cave National Park from the south end when I got out of my vehicle to get some fresh air from my long drive. I looked up in the sky to the south east and saw three white lights in a vertical triangle formation. The object hovered in the sky for approximately 7 seconds, and then the lights faded out slowly in a counter clockwise direction.

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Fireball seen above Brandon sd Looking to the north from my job, 630 AM, sky is still black I’m just south of I90 in Brandon, SD. A huge meteor shot across the sky going towards the north, it came pretty low and it was bright enough to illuminate my car in the parking lot of my job. Exploded or just burned up, and was very bright and orange and green.

I don’t know if anyone else had seen it. The tail was very long until it disappeared.

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9pm saw shiny formation, moved effortlessly, no lights, quiet, then flew out of sight. Standing outside with my dogs at 9pm, partly cloudy. I look east and see a shiny formation which I slowly make out as it started to move north and northeast away from me disappearing into clouds.

It moved effortlessly smooth, like nothing Ive ever seen. It was completely quiet, seemed 2 football fields away, so it felt close but also felt far away because the size was very hard to distinguish. It looked as if it could have had lights but not on, it was shiny like the natural moon light reflecting off to make it gray.

Was only in sight for a minute or 2, moving the whole time.

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Like a small lights lining up and blinking oddly and then after that a triangle shape flew across spring creek sky and kept blinks odd colors. Then the lights line up and blink a blue light then we hear a hovering sound so much our dogs keep barking and it sounds weird. We keep looking and it flashes lights like Amber color and like makes our heads ache a lot! There is something weird going in the sky is all we know.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Hamlin County South Dakota. Multiple red and blue blinking lights at various altitudes, 2 seem to be moving inline together moving at equal distances apart in various directions. 3 others seem to be triangulated moving in a circular pattern but staying in the same basic location….

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Line of 30 lights in a line On the above date and time I was outside burning trash. I got inside my car and started it to warm up as it was cold outside. I live in the country about 4 miles from town.

I stepped outside my car to smoke. I looked up and noticed at least 30 lights about the brightness of a a satellite all moving in a straight line heading in a northeast direction, more east than north. Each light was single equal distance apart from each other about 6 inches long at arms length moving single file in a straight line.

I thought I was looking at something burning up in our atmosphere but each light was a single point of light with no trail behind it. Then each light got bright like an iridium flare then went back to normal. Each light was a single point of light.

They each got bright for a few seconds dimmed and kept moving in a straight line. After observing for about 15 seconds they all went dim with the last light lighting up bright like an iridium flare and all of them going dark. My neighbors cows all started mooing loudly during this event.

Night sky was clear, cold, no wind. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites. PD)).

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30 white orbs. On the Evening of May 24th, 2019, there was a straight line formation of over 30 bright white orbs flying south. This lasted less than five minutes as it flew directly south, all in formation, spacing from nearly right over each other as well as trailing hundreds of miles back in the far sky.

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2 lights appear one over the other, both ascend, slowly disappear. Saw 1 light same area last 3 nights. The past 3 nights I've seen a single star-shaped light appear, then fade out.

I am familiar with stars and often watch the sky. This star-like light seen three consecutive nights. Low and behold, tonight, in the same spot, as I go out to smoke my pipe, there are 2 lights that appear, one above the other.

Both rise slowly, then disappear. Moments later, I saw 4 or five lights in formation flying in that general area, these were flashing. I watched and several lights just disappeared, but one did a circle and flew back from direction it came from.

I also heard a jet engine. I wonder if jets were sent to investigate? Why did several 'jets' disappear? Also, I took motorcycle ride yesterday to Alzada Montana then to Hulett, Wy,.I saw two different military-style 'outposts with people inside fenced areas.

The second one (100 x 100 feet fenced?) had a amtrak like vehicle with a gun turret? I hear jets flying overhead now 22:12. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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It is a nice fairly calm night with some puffy cloud in the sky as the sun was setting. I was in the back yard and noticed an object which I assumed was a plane in the distance, but that the setting sun was reflecting off of it brightly. It was visible over the house at NE about 40 degrees.

I put the house in my line of vision to see if it would move and it did not and if so very slightly as the moon moves. I showed my wife and kids and got the binoculars which just made it a larger reflected ball. A few minutes later then there where two but the second one was NW about 70 degrees and much brighter.

The first on was about twice as bright as Venus. The second once about three times the brightness of Venus. I used my space app and ruled out planets.

As the sun set the bright reflection dimmed and they turned red until finally I could not see them any longer and they were stars out but they had faded away with the sunset. Unusual floating objects. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.

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On a warm May 14th night in 2019, I received a box in the mail containing new swings for the swing set, and went out to the backyard with my 10-year-old to put them up. I put up one link when I noticed an unusually bright light in the sky NW 20 degrees that I assumed must be the sun reflecting on an aircraft coming in. After 10 minutes of not moving, it grabbed my attention.

It was about 2 or 3X as bright as Venus but in the NW. I was disrupted enough to pull my oldest boy off the Xbox and my wife to see the disturbance. My son was unimpressed, and my wife didn’t care for anything potentially out of the norm.

I went back in and I grabbed my binoculars to see it better but it only made the light slightly bigger and shakier. I went back to the swing set with only one link attached so far, reaching to attach the second link I looked up noticed a second reflective object floating in the sky about 40 degrees NW and a little higher where I normally would not se! e anything. It was twice as bright as the first one.

I brought the wife and kids out to see this one too. The wife went to bed and the boys back to their Xbox's as I watched both of these stationary reflective objects as they dimmed away and turned from bright white to red then dark red. Later, as the bats and stars came out at 9:15pm, they faded to nothing.

I returned to the backyard the next day earlier this time and to observe the skies to find nothing. Skies were as usual. Analysis: I observed these two objects from 8pm to 9:20pm in Brandon, SD on 05/14/19.

The first object was noticeable at about 8pm and about as bright as 2X Venus NW 40 Degrees. At circa 8:15 the second object came into view and was about 3X as bright as Venus and NW70 Degrees and higher of the horizon. The moon was about half and rising at about 135 Degrees.

I called my Dad in northern ND and he could see the moon but not the reflective objects. The objects didn’t move that I could tell and didn’t blink. They were bright and faded red as the sun set.

I have lived in this house for 8 years and this was certainly a new experience. I have the planets app on my phone and during this time there were no planets in the area. I consider myself above average for astronomical activity and can usually point out planets and constellations.

Right now, I don’t know what this was. After searching the internet, I have only three guesses. 1.

This was some sort of government stationary (90 Min+) Satellite in the north. Although, a quick internet search says that those are above the equator. 2.

It was maybe Jesus and Joseph Smith both just checking on us? Hard to say. 3. It could also just be a glitch.

I don’t know. If anyone with more Astronomical experience could tell me what I saw I would like to hear back. SE South Dakota.

We should be able to upload pics. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).

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Triangular object with 7 lights on the bottom, appearing to be a few hundred feet from the ground. Saw an object approach from the southeast and bank/turn to the north. Object contained 7-9 lights on the bottom with 3 marking the 'nose' of the craft and the remainder forming a line on either side towards the rear apexes.

Object appeared to be a few hundred feet off the ground and was moving at a medium pace. No beacons were visible on the craft and no sounds were observed. Observation occurred around 0:15 on a clear and quiet night.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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There were 12 orange lights. Moving west to east. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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