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
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
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.