CaseDisk1977
Napa, CA, USA
flying saucer had landed on a driveway then went straight up into a pinpoint in one second
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-06
- Where
- Napa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 38.297, -122.286 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-napa-ca-1977-f11d33
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
- Napa, CA shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from California in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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