CaseUnknown1978

Tonga (unspecified location), Tonga

We saw a red light moving horizontally from left to right across the sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-11-15
Where
Tonga (unspecified location), Tonga
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
4.967, 10.700 · fallback
Slug
unknown-over-tonga-unspecified-location-1978-4b84f4
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

  • Tonga (unspecified location), Tonga shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Tonga in 1978.

Report

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