CaseSphere1977

San Diego, CA, USA

1977, Intense blue light over San Diego.

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 (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
five seconds
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-diego-ca-1977-22ccc7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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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…

In context

  • This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
  • This case is one of 44 California reports filed in 1977.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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