CaseCircle1977
Grand Forks, ND, USA
thin round object hovered in air
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-01
- Where
- Grand Forks, ND, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 47.925, -97.033 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-grand-forks-nd-1977-22bfb0
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
- This is one of 19 reports logged in Grand Forks, ND.
- This case is one of 2 North Dakota reports filed in 1977.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% 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.