CaseUnknown1977
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 12
Report quality: Moderate60/100
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 (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-07-15
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.669, -85.824 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mt-vernon-in-1977-ca2308
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
5 reports came out of Mt. Vernon, IN in July 1977 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Mt. Vernon, IN has 87 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 17 reports from Indiana.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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