Leesburg, FL, USA
My Cousin and I were behind her home in Florida. The home sat near a lake that was surrounded by tall pine trees. We were cleaning fish
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-10
- Where
- Leesburg, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 28.811, -81.878 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-leesburg-fl-1977-aed5fd
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
- Leesburg, FL shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Florida in 1977.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.