CaseCigar1957
Ludlow, MA, USA
A witness in Ludlow, Massachusetts reported a black, silhouetted cigar-shaped object with a flashing light on one edge, hovering before dropping out of sight, for up to five 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-08-15
- Where
- Ludlow, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes max
- Geo
- 42.160, -72.476 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ludlow-ma-1957-e30418
In context
- Ludlow, MA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1957 brought 4 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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