CaseCircle1978
SerlingHights, IL, USA
((HOAX)) Orange glowing objects low large and round saw many but these very large.
Report quality: Low9/100
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 (73 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 1978-06-30
- Where
- SerlingHights, IL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- seen in view only a coupl
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-serlinghights-il-1978-6fe0b8
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
- SerlingHights, IL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Illinois in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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