CaseFireball1977

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
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…

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

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