Union, MO, USA
Three witnesses reported seeing a unusually bright white light cross the sky moving east to west...
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-26
- Where
- Union, MO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- minute
- Geo
- 38.450, -91.008 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-union-mo-1978-6df2d1
Part of a wave
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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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Union, MO in July 1978 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Union, MO has 12 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 11 reports from Missouri.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.