Billerica, MA, USA
In Billerica, Massachusetts on November 1, 1965, a witness reported a cigar-shaped craft that shone a spotlight in their direction, observed over about 20 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (163 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-11-01
- Where
- Billerica, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.558, -71.269 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-billerica-ma-1965-347391
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Billerica, MA.
- This case is one of 8 Massachusetts reports filed in 1965.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.