Union, MO, USA
At approximately 12:10a the witness left her brother's home in Beaufort Missouri returning to her home in Arnold, Missouri; a trip she
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-27
- Where
- Union, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one minute
- Geo
- 38.450, -91.008 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-union-mo-1978-36338c
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…
Local cluster
Union, MO logged 3 reports in the single month of July 1978.
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Union, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 11 sightings in 1978.
- Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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