CaseDisk1977

South Royalton, VT, USA

As reported to MUFONCT: While driving south on rt 89 near South Royalton, VT I spotted huge dark, metallic gray with sectioned plated

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-04-16
Where
South Royalton, VT, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
60 sec.
Geo
43.821, -72.521 · exact
Slug
disk-over-south-royalton-vt-1977-ed2a88
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…

In context

  • South Royalton, VT has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 3 reports from Vermont.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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