CaseUnknown1978
New Castle, PA, USA
Bright lights were blinding us and we heard a soft hum.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-09-16
- Where
- New Castle, PA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.004, -80.347 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-castle-pa-1978-2b306a
Wave
Part of a wave
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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
- New Castle, PA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 18 reports from Pennsylvania.
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.