CaseOval1977

San Antonio, TX, USA

the object just stood there quietly just starring at use it filled the sky .

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-01
Where
San Antonio, TX, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 mins.
Geo
29.424, -98.494 · exact
Slug
oval-over-san-antonio-tx-1977-74eb9f
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…

In context

  • San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Texas in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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