CaseUnknown1977
Delaware, OH, USA
Famous 'WOW' Signal picked up by the SETI antenna at Delaware, Ohio.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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 (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-08-15
- Where
- Delaware, OH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.299, -83.068 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-delaware-oh-1977-f91ea2
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
- Delaware, OH has 26 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 13 reports from Ohio.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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