CaseLight1963
Goodwin, SD, USA
Witnesses driving on a rural highway near Goodwin, South Dakota reported a bright light accompanied by a buzzing noise that caused their car to stop, in a sighting lasting about one hour.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (187 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-05-04
- Where
- Goodwin, SD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 44.879, -96.849 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-goodwin-sd-1963-4edc3f
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Goodwin, SD in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Dakota logged 3 sightings in 1963.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
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