CaseOval1984
Martin, SD, USA
Oval-shaped craft, large as a football field, lights around parameter, first looked like star, silent, fast
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-07-08
- Where
- Martin, SD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 43.172, -101.733 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-martin-sd-1984-44dbdf
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Martin, SD.
- This case is one of 1 South Dakota reports filed in 1984.
- Oval craft made up 5.2% of 1980s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.