UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Imperial Beach, CA, USA

Man is mysteriously moved several blocks and sees a silent balck helicopter with yellow lit cockpit

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-09-09
Where
Imperial Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
32.584, -117.113 · exact
Slug
other-over-imperial-beach-ca-1978-83441a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    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…

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In context

  • Imperial Beach, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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