CaseOval1977

Philadelphia, NY, USA

multi colored

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (13 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-12-24
Where
Philadelphia, NY, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
44.154, -75.709 · exact
Slug
oval-over-philadelphia-ny-1977-4f858e
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

  • Philadelphia, NY has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 17 reports from New York.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.9% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

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.