CaseDisk1977
East Haven, CT, USA
Weather or NOT a Balloon!!!
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-10-16
- Where
- East Haven, CT, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.276, -72.868 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-east-haven-ct-1977-839e99
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
- East Haven, CT shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Connecticut in 1977.
- 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.