Ufo Sightings Mysterious Lights Reported In Skies Over Yankton Area South Dakota
JANUARY 10, 2013 - UNITED STATES - A resident just west of Yankton claims he has seen unexplained lights in the sky on multiple recent nights. A male resident along Rainbow Street in Riverside Acres reported to the Yankton County Sheriff's Office at 8:40 p.m. Friday that he had observed an unknown object in the sky. Sheriff Jim Vlahakis said two of his deputies subsequently observed the light and believed it to be a satellite or, more likely, an airplane due to the flashing red light common on all aircraft. A message was left by the Press no cows were harmed and the diving craft didn't crash." Looking around, he said about four more similar lights were observed. On Friday night, the man said he saw about six of them. Approximately 11 lights were spotted around 1 a.m. Saturday night. As the report was being written around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the witness said they were directly overhead. "I can see the shape of it (maybe triangle or stealth fighter shape)," he states.

"There are no military bases around here or anything else that should bring so much aircraft other than the usual traffic of private planes, crop duster planes and medical helicopters." The sheriff's office has received no other reports of strange aerial activity. MUFON allows photos to be attached to the reports but none were submitted. Klancnik said it's not the first instance of a possible UFO sighting in the region in recent times. "I've had about six different reports within 100 miles of Yankton of a lot of different UFO sightings," he stated. "Most of them have to do with orange lights." For example, a witness reported May 17 of last year that two sets of orange orbs were spotted in the sky at Pickstown. "They appeared only for a few seconds then disappeared," the Pickstown report states. "I tried to get the images on my camera and it was unsuccessful. (Fifteen minutes) later a squadron of jet fighters circled the area and looked like they were sweeping the area around the (site). At first, we thought it was military training activities with flares. The more I thought about it, flares don't stay stationary. Or do they?" Klancnik said he planned to conduct an interview with the witness in Yankton. During his investigation process, he attempts to gauge the reliability of the individual to make sure they aren't just making up a story. "For all of the reports we receive, 98 percent of them are explainable," Klancnik added. "About 2 percent are not, and that's the stuff that makes us wonder." You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twitter at twitter.com/AnInlandVoyage. - PRESS & DAKOTAN.