CaseLight1978
Mojave, CA, USA
it came towards us then zig-zagged across the sky then took of in a different direction.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-19
- Where
- Mojave, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.052, -118.174 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mojave-ca-1978-23f4bc
Wave
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
- Mojave, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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