Australia (in-flight), Above the pacific ocean
On my flight to Sydney Australia. on a Quantas 747 flight. Half way Through our flight, the captain speaking over the P.A.System. T
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
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- Australia (in-flight), Above the pacific ocean
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 22.499, -81.136 · fallback
- Slug
- disk-over-australia-in-flight-1978-0d02d4
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Australia (in-flight), Above the pacific ocean.
- This case is one of 1 Above the pacific ocean reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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