UFOMYST
CaseCircle1978

Lima (Peru), Peru

A brilliant, white,silent circular light moving above us from southwest to the northeast.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-02-15
Where
Lima (Peru), Peru
Shape
Circle
Duration
two minutes
Geo
-12.043, -77.028 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lima-peru-1978-6d9094
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Lima (Peru), Peru in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Peru logged 2 sightings in 1978.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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