CaseUnknown1977
El Paso, TX, USA
Bright light deep in space moving very fast
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-01-14
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30min
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-el-paso-tx-1977-a0910f
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 123 reports logged in El Paso, TX.
- This case is one of 16 Texas 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.