CaseUnknown1977

Mt. Vernon, IN, USA

MADAR Event No. 13

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 (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-26
Where
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
40.669, -85.824 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mt-vernon-in-1977-400f59
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

July 1977 was a busy month for Mt. Vernon, IN: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 87 reports logged in Mt. Vernon, IN.
  • This case is one of 17 Indiana reports filed in 1977.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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