CaseFireball1976
Cactus Flat, SD, USA
Fiery oranges red object hovering over Minuteman II Launch Facility alarms sounded security team dispatched to investigate.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-06-30
- Where
- Cactus Flat, SD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 43.836, -101.894 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cactus-flat-sd-1976-fbdea0
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Cactus Flat, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Dakota logged 2 sightings in 1976.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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