CaseTriangle1978

Coquitlam (Canada), BC, Canada

Hello, I'm 60 years old now and my witness and i had seen this ufo when i was 17 or 18 years old in the Summer time. This would have be

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-20
Where
Coquitlam (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
49.285, -122.782 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-coquitlam-canada-bc-1978-4553bc
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

  • Coquitlam (Canada), Canada has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 15 reports from Canada.
  • The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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