CaseLight1979
Iwakuni (Japan), Japan
Single strange light travels at great and varying speeds, making sharp turns and disappears into the moon.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-15
- Where
- Iwakuni (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.163, 132.220 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-iwakuni-japan-1979-67f08c
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Iwakuni (Japan), Japan.
- This case is one of 1 Japan reports filed in 1979.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.