Alligator Alley, FL, USA
Late summer night drive in August 1978 heading east across Alligator Alley sometime after midnight I experienced several unusual telepa
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-20
- Where
- Alligator Alley, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2-4 hours
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-alligator-alley-fl-1978-428e28
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In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Alligator Alley, FL.
- This case is one of 12 Florida reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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