CaseDisk1978
Medford, OR, USA
Inflight formation with two disk
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-03-21
- Where
- Medford, OR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 7 or 8 mins
- Geo
- 42.327, -122.876 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-medford-or-1978-07376d
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
- Medford, OR has 75 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 6 reports from Oregon.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure 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.