CaseCircle1977

Lancaster, KY, USA

Well I didn't know there was a place you can put sightings. Yes I was seven and it was right around Christmas time , we lived in some a

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-12-23
Where
Lancaster, KY, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.620, -84.578 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lancaster-ky-1977-ef15de
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Lancaster, KY.
  • This case is one of 12 Kentucky reports filed in 1977.
  • Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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