Malibu, USA
The first 2 ships to show were joined by 2 others within about 10 minutes. They seemed to oselate colors from the lighter colors to the
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-01
- Where
- Malibu, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 hours
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-malibu-1977-e66ad3
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
- Malibu, USA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 2 reports from USA.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.