CaseCigar1978

Kyle, SD, USA

It was quiet, and very colorful, the most brilliant lights i have ever seen.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-05-15
Where
Kyle, SD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
unknown
Geo
43.425, -102.177 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-kyle-sd-1978-ce73d9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • Kyle, SD has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 1 reports from South Dakota.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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