CaseCigar1957
LUDLOW, MA, USA
A witness in Ludlow, Massachusetts reported a large, black, cigar-shaped silhouette tapered at both ends, with a bluish-white light flashing at one end, for about two minutes in August 1957.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-08-10
- Where
- LUDLOW, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 MINUTES
- Geo
- 42.160, -72.476 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ludlow-ma-1957-0d198e
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from LUDLOW, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 4 sightings in 1957.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7.3% during the 1950s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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