CaseLight1977

Russellville, AR, USA

Hovering over the Nuclear Plant

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-30
Where
Russellville, AR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-20 mins
Geo
35.278, -93.134 · exact
Slug
light-over-russellville-ar-1977-242c73
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    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

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Russellville, AR.
  • This case is one of 3 Arkansas reports filed in 1977.
  • 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.