UFOMYST
CaseChanging1977

Hamilton (Canada), ON, Canada

I SAW THIS "THING" WHICH WAS IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE BUTTERFLY (ABOUT 10 MILES IN DIAMETER) AT OR NEAR HAMILTON CIVIC AIRPORT

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1977-07-20
Where
Hamilton (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 MINUTES
Geo
43.250, -79.850 · exact
Slug
changing-over-hamilton-canada-on-1977-aa16cc
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 61 reports logged in Hamilton (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 19 Canada reports filed in 1977.
  • Changing craft made up 1% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

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.