CaseDisk1978
Mexico, PA, USA
Four silvery disk objects observed
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-12-10
- Where
- Mexico, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- hour +
- Geo
- 40.538, -77.353 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mexico-pa-1978-6f811f
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
- Mexico, PA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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