CaseTriangle1977
Arleta, CA, USA
Hovering ship over back yard
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-07-15
- Where
- Arleta, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.241, -118.432 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-arleta-ca-1977-419b31
Wave
Part of a wave
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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
- Arleta, CA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 44 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.