UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1978

Grand Prairie, TX, USA

1978 Ufo Grand Prairie Century 4 drive In.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-05-07
Where
Grand Prairie, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
32.746, -96.998 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-grand-prairie-tx-1978-42c76d
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Grand Prairie, TX.
  • This case is one of 25 Texas reports filed in 1978.
  • Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

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.