Newport, OR, USA
Zig-Zagging light similar to star moving around other stars changing intensity as if looping in/out light range
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-15
- Where
- Newport, OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20+10 min
- Geo
- 44.637, -124.053 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newport-or-1977-e34992
Part of a wave
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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
- Newport, OR shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Oregon in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.