Rosco (8-10 miles W of; US Hwy. 12), SD, USA
I saw a black cylinder. ((NUFORC Note: Witness is medical professional. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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- Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-17
- Where
- Rosco (8-10 miles W of; US Hwy. 12), SD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cylinder-over-rosco-8-10-miles-w-of-us-hwy-12-sd-2018-3735f9
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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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Rosco (8-10 miles W of; US Hwy. 12), SD in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Dakota logged 11 sightings in 2018.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
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