CaseFlash1978

Tiffen Valley, OH, USA

Was with friend, hitchhiking from New Hampshire to Illinois. Police kicked us off of the highway and we wound up on back roads and in T

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-04-21
Where
Tiffen Valley, OH, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
6 hours
Geo
Slug
flash-over-tiffen-valley-oh-1978-b7916b
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

  • Tiffen Valley, OH shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 10 reports came from Ohio in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 0.5% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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