CaseRectangle1977

Portsmouth, NH, USA

shoe box shape in New Hampshire in late '70s.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-08
Where
Portsmouth, NH, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
one minute
Geo
43.077, -70.758 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-portsmouth-nh-1977-1d2fc1
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

  • Portsmouth, NH has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 10 reports from New Hampshire.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

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.