CaseCircle1978

San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic

Three bright orange circles of light in the sky (forming a triangle)

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
18.454, -69.309 · exact
Slug
circle-over-san-pedro-de-macoris-1978-4dde42
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

  • San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Dominican Republic in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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