March Air Force Base, CA, USA
One evening in the summer of 1978 my boyfriend's mother was giving me a ride to a store about 9:30 at night, as the store closed at ten
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-15
- Where
- March Air Force Base, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- A couple of minutes
- Geo
- 33.892, -117.263 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-march-air-force-base-ca-1978-b0cac0
Part of a wave
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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
- One of 1 documented reports from March Air Force Base, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 60 sightings in 1978.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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