CaseFormation1977

Christmas Valley, OR, USA

Strange incident in 1977

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (24 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-10-25
Where
Christmas Valley, OR, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 min
Geo
43.236, -120.637 · exact
Slug
formation-over-christmas-valley-or-1977-14b619
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…

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Christmas Valley, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 6 sightings in 1977.
  • Formation sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1970s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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