CaseCylinder1972
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
A witness in Sioux Falls, South Dakota reported a cylindrical object during a roughly one-minute sighting in July 1972, an encounter kept secret for many years since childhood.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (176 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-15
- Where
- Sioux Falls, SD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 min.?
- Geo
- 43.544, -96.728 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sioux-falls-sd-1972-caefd7
In context
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Sioux Falls, SD.
- This case is one of 1 South Dakota reports filed in 1972.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 1970s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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