CaseLight1978

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
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

  • 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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