CaseRectangle1977
Portsmouth, NH, USA
shoe box shape in New Hampshire in late '70s.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-08-08
- Where
- Portsmouth, NH, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- one minute
- Geo
- 43.077, -70.758 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-portsmouth-nh-1977-1d2fc1
Wave
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
- Portsmouth, NH has 20 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 10 reports from New Hampshire.
- The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.