Salem/Montrose (between), SD, USA
Light explodes in sky above Canistota, SD. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor from the Leonid meteor shower. PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-11-19
- Where
- Salem/Montrose (between), SD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 43.724, -97.389 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salem-montrose-between-sd-2004-58a096
Part of a wave
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
- Salem/Montrose (between), SD has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 13 reports from South Dakota.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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