CaseUnknown1977
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
MADAR Event #14
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-08-01
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.669, -85.824 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mt-vernon-in-1977-556386
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…
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mt. Vernon, IN reports filed in August 1977.
In context
- Mt. Vernon, IN shows up 87 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Indiana in 1977.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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