Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
I WAS IN BARRA DA TIJUCA IN A CAMPING SITE WITH 2 FRIENDS, SAW LIKE A PYRAMID IN THE AIR, STARTED TO RUN AWAY, THE GIRL RAN AWAY A FEW
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-02-10
- Where
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- -22.906, -43.182 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-1977-be9f09
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil.
- This case is one of 2 Brazil reports filed in 1977.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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