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
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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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