UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

San Diego/North County, CA, USA

I saw a blue streak across the sky.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-12
Where
San Diego/North County, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-diego-north-county-ca-1978-f2c6e6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in San Diego/North County, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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