CaseOval1978

Lemoore Naval Air Force Base (sic), CA, USA

silent like wind in the trees @ 150 yards in length 75 - 80 yards in width, multi color lights, within a transluecent outer shell, Movi

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.

  • Duration parsed: 510s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-23
Where
Lemoore Naval Air Force Base (sic), CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
7 - 10 minutes
Geo
Slug
oval-over-lemoore-naval-air-force-base-sic-ca-1978-c93320
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Lemoore Naval Air Force Base (sic), CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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