CaseTriangle1978
Ocean City, NJ, USA
Ocean City, NJ, triangle of 3 lights, hovered over condominium, no sound, departed with incredible speed
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 (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-01
- Where
- Ocean City, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.278, -74.575 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ocean-city-nj-1978-8673cb
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
- Ocean City, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 9 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.