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
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
- 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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