Unknown over Near Canistota, SD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At first appearing quite small, the beams of lights expanded to a very large scale, seeming to stretch across the constellations in the sky. I took a photo as it began, and tried to take zoomed in photos as it expanded, but camera quality is not the greatest. As it grew larger, my phone camera couldn't quite capture the light being sent out
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170170). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-06-16 → 2022-07-03