CaseUnknown1978
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Light in the sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-02-16
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-santa-cruz-ca-1978-f14cdb
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
- Santa Cruz, CA shows up 76 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from California in 1978.
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.