UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Watertown, SD, USA

A bright light similar to a very bright star, flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast at a constant speed.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-26
Where
Watertown, SD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 or 4 minutes
Geo
44.899, -97.115 · exact
Slug
light-over-watertown-sd-2004-6dc093
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Watertown, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Dakota logged 13 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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