CaseChanging1998
Salem, MA, USA
Bright light hovered over Marblhead Bay for several hours. Oval to disk shape but seemed to also change shape as well as color. Bright
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-03
- Where
- Salem, MA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3hrs
- Geo
- 42.520, -70.896 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-salem-ma-1998-e274e8
In context
- Salem, MA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 27 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1990s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.