UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

West Palm Beach, FL, USA

Small saucer hovering over house then shooting into sky.

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: 17s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
17 seconds
Geo
26.715, -80.053 · exact
Slug
disk-over-west-palm-beach-fl-1977-1caeb9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    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…

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In context

  • One of 86 documented reports from West Palm Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 15 sightings in 1977.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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