UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Eagle Butte, SD, USA

lighted crafts seem to take notice of us

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Eagle Butte, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
almost 45 mins.
Geo
45.002, -101.233 · exact
Slug
light-over-eagle-butte-sd-1997-48549d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Eagle Butte, SD.
  • This case is one of 5 South Dakota reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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