CaseLight1972
El Salvador, El Salvador
A witness in El Salvador reported a light initially resembling a satellite that made right-angle turns, zigzagged across the sky, and then shot away rapidly, during a six-minute sighting in July 1972.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (200 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-16
- Where
- El Salvador, El Salvador
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 8.563, 124.522 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-el-salvador-1972-7cfacb
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from El Salvador, El Salvador in the UFOMYST archive.
- El Salvador logged 1 sightings in 1972.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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