UFOMYST
CaseFlash1977

Whitehorse (Canada), BC, Canada

Nightime sighting by many witnesses which forced a police car and fire truck off the road

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-12-29
Where
Whitehorse (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 hour
Geo
60.716, -135.054 · fallback
Slug
flash-over-whitehorse-canada-bc-1977-cdd672
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Whitehorse (Canada), Canada has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 19 reports from Canada.
  • The 1970s skewed 0.5% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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