CaseOther1998
Rapid City, SD, USA
there was a light similar to a falling star, only bigger and longer in duration...i have seen plenty of falling stars and this was not
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-18
- Where
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- 44.081, -103.231 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-rapid-city-sd-1998-eab4bc
In context
- Rapid City, SD has 43 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 7 reports from South Dakota.
- The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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