CaseLight1977
Brea, CA, USA
A light emitted other other lights
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-08-15
- Where
- Brea, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 33.917, -117.900 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-brea-ca-1977-a6e4da
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
- Brea, CA shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from California in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.