CaseDisk1978

Bluepoint, NY, USA

I was in my Chevolet van driving east on Montauk Hwy, it was a humid night and the light was almost all gone, just about the time you w

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-23
Where
Bluepoint, NY, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.744, -73.035 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bluepoint-ny-1978-c17e92
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…

In context

  • Bluepoint, NY shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New York in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.