CaseChevron1978

Valdosta, GA, USA

Warm December night two days before Christmas, while standing in my landlords backyard watching the goings on in the chickencoupe with

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-23
Where
Valdosta, GA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
1.5 minutes
Geo
30.833, -83.280 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-valdosta-ga-1978-ec0aad
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

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Valdosta, GA.
  • This case is one of 7 Georgia reports filed in 1978.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% 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.