CaseUnknown1978
Temple, TX, USA
It was eerie! no sound! There was something there absolutely! With light’s on it!
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-05-10
- Where
- Temple, TX, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 31.098, -97.343 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-temple-tx-1978-f2fea9
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
- Temple, TX shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Texas 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.