Changing over Sioux Falls, SD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
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.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165528). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-11-18 → 2021-12-05
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November 2, 2023 · 10:25 PM · CHEVRON
Sioux Falls, SD
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.
April 24, 2023 · 11:20 AM · SPHERE
Sioux Falls, SD
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.
December 30, 2022 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sioux Falls, SD
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.
February 25, 2022 · 6:50 AM · OTHER
Sioux Falls, SD
Got out of bed about 6:45 am, sun was rising to my far left. First look out the window immediately spotted this very bright object left to crescent moon which was straight ahead. Didn’t seem to move at first. Not a plane, no green or red or orange light, bigger and brighter than plane. Not blinking. Got my husband and started looking through binoculars. It’s round, like a cluster of tiny diamond. Moving very slowly away from moon and me. Slow changes by intermittently forming a vacuole, usually one vacuole at a time, rarely 2, once 3. From some angles vacuole looked like a bite out of a cake and then filled up again. Occasionally i saw an axis on the round structure that moved from side to side. Looked with binoculars continuously from 6:50 until 7:30. It’s still there but further and brighter sunlight makes it barely visible with bare eyes.
February 13, 2022 · 6:51 AM · OTHER
Sioux Falls, SD
There was a long tail of light behind a head with at least green lights, maybe red. I have seen many shooting stars and meteors and it was different because the size, multicolored lighted head, duration it was visible. I was able to pull my phone out with a gloved hand and take a picture
January 31, 2022 · 6:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Sioux Falls, SD
We were taking a walk and noticed a weird shape in the sky and decided to take some pictures. Normally something like this would be blinking but there were no flashing lights, just this weird shape flying from North to South.