Chevron over Spearfish, SD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object first appeared in the north sky. My attention was drawn to what initially appeared to be a shooting star. The first thing
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2006-10-26 → 2006-11-12
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August 17, 2023 · 9:15 PM · CIGAR
Spearfish, SD
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. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
November 26, 2016 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Spearfish, SD
We saw a bright light in SW sky, much brighter than stars. When I got out a spotting scope you could see it was strobing colors. When I put it on highest power it was clearly a flattened disk with different colored lights on edges. I went outside to take a picture and it had dropped 15 to 20 degrees and now sat right on the horizon. This was a matter of a minute or two at most. It was in the clouds and I couldn't get a picture.
September 2, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Spearfish, SD
As it went along, different pieces seemed to stream underneath the main light, which slowly dissipated in the night sky.. Almost seemed to have a sparkle to the front. Suspected to have been a re-entry of a portion of the Russian Cosmos 2495. Our gratitude to Mr. Ted Molczan for his proper identification of the object. PD
September 6, 2002 · 8:30 PM · CIGAR
Spearfish, SD
I saw a cigar shaped, glowing blue object travelling at a high rate of speed.
June 28, 2001 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Spearfish, SD
On a camping trip, I saw what I've been waiting for all my life.