CaseCone1977
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
I know what I saw....I don't care if you don't believe me....
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 (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-09-01
- Where
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-grand-rapids-mi-1977-a50f5a
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Grand Rapids, MI shows up 121 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Michigan in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.