UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1978

Granite Station (near), CA, USA

We, had sence of dread, but not hostility; I was armed with high power rifle, felt no need to use it.

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.

  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-15
Where
Granite Station (near), CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
aprx 20min
Geo
—
Slug
cylinder-over-granite-station-near-ca-1978-e2d254
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Granite Station (near), CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 1970s reports, vs 1.6% 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.