UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1977

Butte Meadows (near), CA, USA

Strange light beamed straight down over our campfire. There was no sound.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-01
Where
Butte Meadows (near), CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.081, -121.551 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-butte-meadows-near-ca-1977-2c40e1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Butte Meadows (near), CA.
  • This case is one of 44 California reports filed in 1977.

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.