CaseTriangle1977
Auburn, CA, USA
UFO momentaily flies 50 to 60 feet above street, seemingly out of control, then flies off.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-15
- Where
- Auburn, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.897, -121.077 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-auburn-ca-1977-7e3f22
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
- Auburn, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from California in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 7.9% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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