CaseDisk1978

Delta, PA, USA

Space craft hovers over pond

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Delta, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
39.727, -76.327 · exact
Slug
disk-over-delta-pa-1978-e702a0
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

  • Delta, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 18 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.