UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Salem, NH, USA

Approx. noon of this day in October. I was relaxing on my car and just la

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-08
Where
Salem, NH, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 hours
Geo
42.788, -71.201 · exact
Slug
disk-over-salem-nh-1978-df8f29
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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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…

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In context

  • This is one of 28 reports logged in Salem, NH.
  • This case is one of 9 New Hampshire reports filed in 1978.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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