CaseFlash1977

Brasilia (Brazil), Brazil

Cloudy night. Was close to Brasilia International Airport. Some white flashes (like photo camera flash)randomic, about 6 or 8 white lig

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-02-01
Where
Brasilia (Brazil), Brazil
Shape
Flash
Duration
seconds
Geo
-15.780, -47.930 · exact
Slug
flash-over-brasilia-brazil-1977-f975de
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Brasilia (Brazil), Brazil in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Brazil logged 2 sightings in 1977.
  • Flash sightings ran at 0.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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