UFOMYST
CaseChevron1978

Gulfport, MS, USA

Grouped lights in sky moving fast in a configuration of a chevron or partial diamond.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-22
Where
Gulfport, MS, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
30.367, -89.093 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-gulfport-ms-1978-c13ddb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Gulfport, MS.
  • This case is one of 6 Mississippi reports filed in 1978.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Report

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