UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Sunnyside, WA, USA

Bright light over Yakima Valley in about 1978

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-09-01
Where
Sunnyside, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
46.324, -120.009 · exact
Slug
light-over-sunnyside-wa-1978-9ad839
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Sunnyside, WA has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 15 reports from Washington.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.