CaseUnknown1977

Barstow, CA, USA

Man and son are approached on the highway by a cigar-shaped craft with windows along its side.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
Barstow, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
34.899, -117.023 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-barstow-ca-1977-526566
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

  • Barstow, CA shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from California in 1977.

Report

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