UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

St.Thomas (U. S. Virgin Islands), U. S. Virgin Islands

Visible in the mid-day

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: 130s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-02-15
Where
St.Thomas (U. S. Virgin Islands), U. S. Virgin Islands
Shape
Disk
Duration
130 seconds
Geo
18.342, -64.931 · exact
Slug
disk-over-st-thomas-u-s-virgin-islands-1978-815f5c
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

  • St.Thomas (U. S. Virgin Islands), U. S. Virgin Islands has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 1 reports from U. S. Virgin Islands.
  • 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.