UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Shantineketan, (West Bengal) (India), India

A brilliant light moved super fast in the sky and zig zagged away at unearthly speed.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-06
Where
Shantineketan, (West Bengal) (India), India
Shape
Light
Duration
15/20 seconds
Geo
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Slug
light-over-shantineketan-west-bengal-india-1978-176d9b
Wave

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Shantineketan, (West Bengal) (India), India.
  • This case is one of 3 India reports filed in 1978.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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