UFOMYST
CaseCigar2022

Yankton, SD, USA

I first saw this cigar shape fairly brightin the northern sky, there was glowing around it on two sides, like if it was shining light.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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.

  • Duration parsed: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-01-31
Where
Yankton, SD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
~8 minutes
Geo
42.871, -97.397 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-yankton-sd-2022-3576c3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Yankton, SD shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from South Dakota in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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