CaseUnknown1978
Geneseo, NY, USA
Observed a strange circular spotlight on ground in rural area
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 (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-02-20
- Where
- Geneseo, NY, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.796, -77.817 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-geneseo-ny-1978-194bdb
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 3 reports logged in Geneseo, NY.
- This case is one of 24 New York reports filed in 1978.
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.