UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Clear Lake, SD, USA

A light dips down and disappears in a flash. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-15
Where
Clear Lake, SD, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 second
Geo
44.746, -96.683 · exact
Slug
flash-over-clear-lake-sd-2017-b03d0d
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

  • Clear Lake, SD shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 18 reports came from South Dakota in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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