South Dakota UFO Sightings in 2021

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Silent black mass moved silently above residential home, appeared boomerang shaped but video suggests cigar/changing. Moved Southeast. This was posted to reddit.

com/r/UFOs for community consideration: My observations: 1. This was near perfect ”black” almost matching the night sky. No mounted/visible lights other than moonlight reflection.

2. It looked boomerang shaped at first, but I had my back deck light on full blast, definitely interfering with my perception :/ 3. It appeared to move silently.

Though I had heard a typical plane/drone noise and helicopter noises from afar only seconds prior. 4. This didn’t trigger any internal reaction from me nor seemed to bother my dogs (they are playing in the video).

Definite adrenaline rush though.! 5. The actual sighting lasted only about 30 seconds from when I first saw this to when I was only able to see from my phone’s screen/viewfinder.

6. NEW: Misc. lights (blinking AND solid lights) were seen before and after this sighting in the general Southeastern location.

May prove irrelevant but felt necessary to include. Lights did not immediately appear to be official government vehicle, more likely drones or very distant vehicle. Being mostly uneducated my first thought (besides ”UFO”) was something like a B52 Bomber? I will try to keep my eyes to the sky.

I've included the original MOV as well as edited AND negative footage for reference.

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I saw several crafts move both quickly and remain stationary. I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I witnessed something tonight that I never would have believed before. I live on the edge of the City, so it is very dark around my apartment complex.

I went outside with my 2 dogs and was standing still looking at the sky because the stars were particularly beautiful tonight. As I stood there watching, at first, I thought I had just witnessed 2 planes flying way to close to each other. I don’t live far from The Ellsworth Airforce Base, so I did consider that they may be practicing maneuvers as they often do.

If I tell anyone else about this, I will just be told that it was planes from the base and to forget about it. As I continued watching, one of the objects left the other very quickly and then turned it’s lights off. Because of the way the moon lit the sky tonight, I could still see its shadow (?), not sure how to describe it, but I could still see it.

I then continued to walk my dogs and counted at least 7 more of the exact same objects in a circular formation, all standing still with the (main?) craft continuing to leave it’s lights on while also remaining stationary. After walking my dogs, I went back inside of my apartment and immediately Googled “UFO’s Rapid City” hoping there were more reports of what I saw. As far as I know, they are still out there right now.

I am really hoping someone else reported seeing the same thing so I don't sound like a crazy woman.

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suspending in one place for a longtime square no movement I noticed something in the air above my lead digger on the job line for approximately 10 minutes it started to get darker and moving around a little bit. Continued to do my job and what I was doing. Every time I spun around on my excavator i saw that it was still there.

after a while i grabbed my camera and began to shoot video of it. I thought it was strange because it was in one spot for such a longtime that is why i grabbed my camera and began filming. It stayed there for 31 seconds and the boom of the lead excavator covered the object and then it was gone and there was a dark cloud in its place.

Thank You for your time.

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Very large oval ball the same color of the mixed gray and white clouds It was raining off and on that day. It was very hot. I was on my way to Sturgis from Rapid City, via freeway to attend a patriot convention and concert.

The time was early evening somewhere between 5-7pm. Headed westbound on the freeway straight ahead there were beautiful, dark green mountains and just slightly to the right of center of my vision if looking straight ahead while driving; I saw a huge globe of cloudy white move straight upward. It appeared it had come off of the ground and straight up into the clouds that were hanging kind of low due to the storms that were off and on.

The color was the exact same color as the stormy clouds. They weren't black or dark gray. They were light gray and white.

I knew that this large ball could sit right in the clouds just above all of us completely hidden. It disappeared as soon as it hit the clouds. This ball was so large that from the distance I was to it it seemed that if I were standing upon it it would be to me looking up at a hot air balloon.

Big. I feel it was larger than a hot air balloon since I was so far away. It wasn't exactly spherical and it wasn't exactly oval.

It was both. Just a tad off. It had a very soft look to it.

No rough edges and no lights. If it was exactly spherical then it could've been something malleable ( might be the wrong word for this) that as it lifted the force from doing so would pull it out of shape a little. Like pulling a water filled balloon and see it change shape and extend a little.

It was horizontally oval. The curvature of the freeway took me to the mountainside then being on my left and I remember thinking that this was about where that thing lifted from the ground. I tried to look over at the green, beautiful mountains to see if I could see any kind of doorways into the ground or hidden in the mountain by chance.

I looked to the right and saw a patrol officers cruiser lights on. They were pulled off to the right side of the road in a little half moon pull off area from the freeway. Another car was also there.

Not sure of someone had broken down or was getting pulled over. I would like to know of there were any other reports. It was daylight.

There is no way I am the only one that saw it. It was too big.

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Multiple streaks in same spot, followed by slower one Light that streaked extremely fast across a small portion of the night sky. Happened about 5 times in the exact same spot. Had no trail like a shooting star does.

After this happened, a dimmer light went from the same spot and traveled North in a much slower fashion before disappearing suddenly.

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Bright, lime green fireball in the sky While sitting in my driveway, my friend and I witnessed a large ball of light that was lime green in color fall from the sky and crash behind a large hill. When it fell behind the hill, there was a really bright flash of light.

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70 lights all moving around sky. Initially look like stars but are rapidly blinking. An seemingly in atmosphere.

Some are orange.some are pulsating blue. Most look like dime tic tacs.

Some are Groups of threes moving in unison. also ,I'M NOT CRAZY. Been seeing this fer a YEAR now.