UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Spokane, WA, USA

While I cannot remember the exact date I remember the event very clearly considering it was over 25 years ago and I was only 9-years-ol

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-10
Where
Spokane, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 or 2 minutes
Geo
47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug
disk-over-spokane-wa-1978-08aaf7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Spokane, WA has 235 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 15 reports from Washington.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.