CaseDisk1978

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
Wave

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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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