CaseOther1978
Gulfport, MS, USA
Orb of light enters body, awake temporarily paralyzed, followed by prophetic visions and drawings
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-24
- Where
- Gulfport, MS, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 30.367, -89.093 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-gulfport-ms-1978-4e54c4
Wave
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…
In context
- Gulfport, MS has 38 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 6 reports from Mississippi.
- The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.