Pendleton/Athena (between), OR, USA
Tourquois-green fireball drop straight down from a cloud layer and hover a few seconds. Next made a bee line to our car, then shot str
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-15
- Where
- Pendleton/Athena (between), OR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- several seconds
- Geo
- 45.672, -118.789 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-pendleton-athena-between-or-1978-251748
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
- Pendleton/Athena (between), OR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 6 reports from Oregon.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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