CaseRectangle1978

Newnan, GA, USA

the spot lights that were circeling on the roof tops of our house.

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 (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Newnan, GA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 min.
Geo
33.381, -84.800 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-newnan-ga-1978-59db51
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    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

  • Newnan, GA has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 7 reports from Georgia.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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