CaseDisk1978

Langhorne (Bermuda), PA, Bermuda

Close Encounters of the Bermudian Kind 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-22
Where
Langhorne (Bermuda), PA, Bermuda
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 hours plus
Geo
40.175, -74.923 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-langhorne-bermuda-pa-1978-865b49
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 1 reports logged in Langhorne (Bermuda), Bermuda.
  • This case is one of 2 Bermuda 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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