CaseFireball1977
Chopin, LA, USA
Fireball light show in the Western Louisiana sky.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-21
- Where
- Chopin, LA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 - 90 min.
- Geo
- 31.497, -92.859 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chopin-la-1977-62a458
Wave
Part of a wave
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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
- Chopin, LA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Louisiana in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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